Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
ALAN JAY LERNERWhy can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Men die but an idea does not.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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England still will be here without you.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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