#victoria

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#also #era #i #jeans #like

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#big business #business #dirty #england #like

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#catalogue #did #eating #events #exercise

Is it an endearing quirk among European explorers to imagine that every geographical feature they clap eyes on for the first time is in need of a new name, or is if just a plain silly one? As far as I understand, humans have been knocking around this part of Africa for - give or take a birthday candle- three million years. The existence of a large wet patch smack in the middle of them had not gone unnoticed. How large? Bigger than Lake Michigan, bigger than Tasmania, bigger than Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island all rolled into one. It is so big that people on one side gave it one name, people on the other side gave it another, and people in between gave it several more. But that didn't matter to Dr Livingstone. Along he came and he didn't ask the locals what they called this large lake at the top end of the Nile. He gave it yet another name, in honour of the elder of a tribe of white people on a small island five thousand miles away. ↗

— Nicholas Drayson

#imagination

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that? ↗

— Amalie Howard

#bloodspell-book #books-for-teens #urban-fantasy #victoria #young-adult

It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret. ↗

— Lindsay Ellingson

#exciting #home #i #me #secret

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as has been his career, it has been full of promise for the future. The son of highly intellectual parents, he has had an exceptional education, has travelled much in wild and remote, through classic lands, and in the course of these journeys has learnt to appreciate the beauties of the old authors, in whose works whilst at college he attained exceptional proficiency. But his naturally enthusiastic temperament teaches him to hope for better in the future than has been achieved in the past, and to see how vast will be the influence of Art and Literature on the coming democracy of Intellect, when education and culture shall have taught men to pride themselves on what they have done, and not alone on the deeds of their ancestors. ↗

— Walter Hamilton

#oscar-wilde #victorian #victorian-era #walter-hamilton #age

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#prettiness #tea #victorian-society #women #tea

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#full-time #i #principal #products #started