Rube, this is me you're talking to, Clancy Crew, remember? Your best buddy? And I hate to break it to you this way but your grandmother on your mother's side, she isn't sick - she's dead!


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LYDIA M. CHILD
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
LYDIA M. CHILD
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others...
LYDIA M. CHILD
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evi...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and hel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...
LYDIA M. CHILD
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA M. CHILD
If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
LAUREN MILLER
Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't ha...
RALPH LAUREN
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but h...
RALPH LAUREN
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I...
RALPH LAUREN
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's no...
RALPH LAUREN
I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion v...
RALPH LAUREN
They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes...
RALPH LAUREN
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought ...
RALPH LAUREN
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
RALPH LAUREN
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
RALPH LAUREN
The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how the...
RALPH LAUREN
I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
RALPH LAUREN
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I...
RALPH LAUREN
You have to create something from nothing.
RALPH LAUREN
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting informa...
LAUREN STAMILE
I think women need to empower themselves instead of asking for handouts.
LAUREN SOUTHERN
Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my...
LAUREN LAPKUS
I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
LAUREN MYRACLE
We live in an age of mediocrity.
LAUREN BACALL
For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think.
LAUREN COHAN
I'd love to design bridal dresses.
LAUREN CONRAD
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me e...
LAUREN POTTER
Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at...
LAUREN KATE
We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' w...
LAUREN AMBROSE
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' '...
LAUREN BACALL
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze...
LAUREN GROFF
My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.
DYLAN LAUREN
a) he's late.
b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off.
c)he's gotten into a ho...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT
You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.
LAUREN CONRAD