“[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
Source: Angel Chooi cited in " The rise of maid cafés in Malaysia and why it’s actually kinda cool https://eksentrika.com/maid-cafe-malaysia-king-angel/" on Eksentrika.
“[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Love the One You're With
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to I.P. Chekhov (October 2, 1897)
Letters
Devyani Khobragade (1974) Indian diplomat
As Devyani Khobragade exits US to return to India, a culture clash lingers https://archive.is/20140112143638/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2014-01-11/india/46089742_1_devyani-khobragade-domestic-worker-diplomat, Times of India, 11 January 2014
“When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung.”
William Collins (1721–1759) English poet, born 1721
Source: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 1.
“While few customer offerings have a life, all great products and services have a soul.”
Jonas Ridderstråle (1966) Swedish business theorist
Source: Karaoke Capitalism, 2005, p. 224
“While few customer offerings have a life, all great products and services have a soul.”
Kjell A. Nordström (1958) Economist, writer, public speaker
Source: Karaoke Capitalism, 2005, p. 224
“O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,<br/>et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.