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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

"And how did you all meet?"

Donna Air - interviewing sibling group "The Corrs". Laughing

Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

It's not true I had nothing on ... I had the radio on.

Marilyn Monroe

mairead · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

Chanel, of course.

Marlyn Monroe when asked what she wore in bed.
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?

Marilyn Monroe

mairead · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:04 am Post subject:

When we have not what we love,
we must love what we have

anon
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Oscar Wilde

mairead · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:33 am Post subject:

That's no lady Sir, that's my wife. can't remember who said it though.
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mairead · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:37 am Post subject:

England is merely an island of beef flesh swimming in a warm gulfstream of gravy Katherine Mansefield (The Modern Soul)
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mairead · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

I wasna fu, but just had plenty.. ... Burns. (Death and Dr Hornbrook)
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

mairead · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.....

Nicholas Murray Butler.
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

mairead · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject:

Now there's an end of ane old sang. James Oglivie, Earl of Seafield, on signing the act of union 1707
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

mairead · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject:

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.... Cyril Connolly (Enemies of Promise)
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

- Jane Austen

mairead · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

Learning without thought is labour lost
Thought without learning is perilous

Confucius
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

A {tax loophole is} something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Russell B. Long

mairead · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:18 am Post subject:

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger

Pierre Corneille
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4021

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?"
Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."

Andrea Ayvazian