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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.


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Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she...
FLORENCE KELLEY I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
FLORENCE WELCH I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out o...
TYLER FLORENCE Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream t...
FLORENCE AUBENAS I had no stratagems, no tricks. You are simply obliged to put up with it, you have no choice.
FLORENCE AUBENAS Obviously, you have no other proof but your word. So I hope they are going to believe her, as they b...
FLORENCE AUBENAS She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.
FLORENCE AUBENAS Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holi...
FLORENCE ALLSHORN First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurant...
TYLER FLORENCE Books, I think, are what magic smells like.
MILLIE FLORENCE I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
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