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the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye. — Lisa See

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. — Bryan Fuller

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another. — Diane Von Furstenberg

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. — George Meyer

I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes ... — Joseph Boyden

I was a tomboy and any time anyone says something about me being hot, it makes me giggle. — Eva Longoria

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy. — B.R. Ambedkar

All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths. — Kathleen Norris

You have to respect all your competitors. — Thorsten Heins

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly.
"A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device. — Bret Easton Ellis

She seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be. — Gloria Steinem

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! — Thomas A. Edison

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture. — Edward O. Wilson

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. — Gillian Flynn

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. — Robert Englund

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. — Epictetus

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. — Albert Bandura

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. — George Bernard Shaw

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. — Robert Half

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt

An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence. — Victor Hugo

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever. — Simon Pegg

It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something. — John Paul Caponigro

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. — William Shenstone