#ak

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#always #be true #becoming #control #culture

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block. ↗

— John Tenniel

#begin #block #carefully #day #down

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. ↗

— Terence

#any #i #life #much #one thing

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#makes #people #selfish #selfishness

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

I would rather make my name than inherit it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#inherit #make #name #rather #than

No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#amount #loss #make #make up #part

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. ↗

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks. ↗

— John Tesh

#people #pray #put #risks #take

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it! ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#everybody #give #give me #i #make