Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
Veronica Lake
Related Why it's a trio is that it comes with two pairs of pants and a jacket. The jacket and one pair of pa... WENDY SCHNEIDER Your real self -- the I am I -- is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully hav... ROBERT COLLIER Your real self - the ''I am I'' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully h... ROBERT COLLIER Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants. ELIZA DUSHKU Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightf... ROBERT COLLIER We have a choice...we can either rally up every miserable, single person in the city and have a gian... JOY MANISCALCO My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myse... JERRY HALL Everything can be adapted to get the look you want. Young girls may want to wear the tunic tops as a... LAUREN JOHNSON Orgy Porgy, Ford and fun. Kiss the girls and make them one. Girls at one with Boys at peace. Orgy pr... ALDOUS HUXLEY I never go sexy. I'm more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe. DREE HEMINGWAY She only left with a couple pair of pants. SETH GREENBERG A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. LAWRENCE DURRELL A pair of freshmen rushed by our door talking about who would make a better Gallagher Girl: Buffy th... ALLY CARTER The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. AYN RAND And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of th... W.B. YEATS Beating Lake Norman was huge last year. Their aura of invincibility vanished. STEVE STITH I have to be honest, I don't pay as much attention to women's fashion, but being a sneaker h... BRYAN GREENBERG How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping ba... REGINA BRETT Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to ... LAUREN WILLIG I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of ... DOROTHY MALONE Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-estee... THOMAS SZASZ a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make y... J. D. SALINGER Paranormal romance gives me the opportunity to explore love outside of its traditional boundaries. C... STEPHANIE DRAVEN However, no-one was found on the farm. A number of personal items were found in the house, which mad... MAKHOSINI NKOSI Every giant tree started its life journey being a Seed. Seed your mind today with beautiful thoughts... MOHAMMED MUSHTAQ GK I got a sweater, a top, a pair of pants -- only what I had on my back. CORA RAMIREZ Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ... MATT TAIBBI If you think of the substation as a giant electrical outlet, the wind farm will plug into the substa... CLAUDIA RAPKOCH True happiness generates from suffering, as suffering gives away to the unnoticed and simple. Eyes o... JOSHUA BRAND When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save ... JONI ERNST The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Don't think like a shop girl! Think like a poet!" Veronica, Mary Gatskill MARY GATSKILL God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. J. G. HOLLAND God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to... JOYCE CAROL OATES Every guy should own one good pair of jeans. HANNIBAL BURESS I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every yea... QUENTIN TARANTINO We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to com... GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS The team may be small, but they are a dedicated group of kids. I love working with each and every on... DESIREE KIESEL You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the... JUNOT DíAZ It's always exciting to find a new object in the solar system. This gives us further support that a ... HAL WEAVER Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so th... HARRY CROSBY The guy told me to shut up, and there were a pair of pants on the floor. He put those over my head. ASHLEY JONES In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious a... RAINN WILSON As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others’ opinions, and I devoted incr... SUSAN C. YOUNG When one farm reaches the end of its ideal productive period, we go to another. JOSé ROBERTO PRADO As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go. JOHN GRACE The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously cha... HARUKI MURAKAMI The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature.... JEREMY BENTHAM We have a lot of fun in our marriage, At my home I wear the pants ... the pair she tells me to put o... LUPE SILVA God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND to insert a little sanity and truth into this mad orgy. KANSAS I went from a morning of fear and panic to mind-boggling confusion, to an overwhelming sense of guil... ASHLEY NEWELL The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ... MILAN KUNDERA He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better. GEORGE ARZT I love 'Gossip Girl'! I still miss 'Veronica Mars,' though. SARAH REES BRENNAN When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES BARRIE When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ... JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. THOMAS ALVA EDISON The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. THOMAS A. EDISON The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or
inhabitants. THOMAS ALVA EDISON They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. Tight pants maybe. SpongeBob Hot Pan... ROBIN WILLIAMS I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself. AIDAN QUINN The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature.... JEREMY BENTHAM But it gives you a problem when everybody has a septic system, and they're all draining into the lak... HOLLY MARTIN I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lama... INGRID BERGMAN Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. ... THOMAS SZASZ Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T... THOMAS S. SZASZ The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into f... D.H. LAWRENCE Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes. EARL DERR BIGGERS It gives the dollar a competitor. One of the reasons the dollar is sinking is because Saudi Arabia i... DAVID GILLETTE I'm going to have to go buy a pair of black leather pants so I can storm up and down the sideline as... ROY THOMAS She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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