“To watch how a proper diva does it. Wrist to finger. Nipple to clavicle. A true fitting takes time and patience..” Courtney Love on Faye Dunaway
The dome of St Paul’s was made by the pull of donkey’s and the hope of angels”
I think of all of the things I don’t want to know
Best to just keep swimming
He was born with one arm and one leg shorter that the other
He had a milk-and-water character
High hopes
“Hey, I don’t want to cause an incident.”
“After a certain numbers of stories like that, all the perfume of orange blossom and lemon blossom starts to smell of corpses.’ Midnight in Sicily-mafia murders
One Way or Another
The flaming shield of intransigence
There is no asterisk
“In another life I would have been unhappy.”
‘Motivation, curiosity, confidence and a sense of what is possible - people can’t be bothered to put the effort in, don’t care what they discover, feel they couldn’t dig deeper if they tried and don’t have a sense of what they might achieve if they did’ Tim Harford FT
Botox (Botulinum toxin) was first used to treat strabismus (crossed eyes) and blepharospasm (uncontrollable blinking)
