Customs Quotes - Page 19

• Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.

  Andrew Robb

  Simple, Trying, Ease

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

  John Mayer

  Sound, Incredibles, Made

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• One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Age, Routine

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.44, Crown

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• Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Men, Age

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.121, UPNE

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• I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Government, People

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Home, Giving

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft”, p.211, OUP Oxford

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• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Religious, Fashion

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.

  Danny Boyle

  Drama, Character, Sun

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• I think someone's biggest competition is themselves. I stand out as a 'fashion' designer and not to be confused with, (people who call themselves 'clothing' designers, who just print designs or logos on pre-existing t-shirts), because what I have created is custom fashions that are a personal extension of myself and my personality. It's pretty unique since there is only one of me.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Confused, Unique

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Secret, Vices

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Building, Platforms

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Leadership, Courage, Son

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• There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  People, Creative, World

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Mean, Gun

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Light, Advice

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• Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

  James Dobson

  Attitude, Men, Determined

  James C. Dobson (1992). “Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions: Marriage & Sexuality”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

  John Locke

  Humanity, Tradition, Reconcile

  John Locke, Alfred Howard (1834). “The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works”, p.62

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• How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

  Terence

  Justice, Unjust

  Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182

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• Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

  Virgil

  Peace, War, Skills

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

  Bodhidharma

  Wise, People, Sublime

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Proportion, Absurdity

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

  Edward Gibbon

  House, Inns, Masters

  Edward Gibbon (2017). “Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)”, p.4, Litres

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• Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Men, Circles

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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