#ages

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#body #body image #brain #clothes #comfortable

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#allow #america #black #career #celluloid

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#ages #america #brought #civilization #columbus

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#always #being #full #get #restaurant

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#film #i #messages #office #post

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do? ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#me #messages #move #other #phone

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#languages #travel #art