#ak

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#morning #waking-up #men

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room ↗

— Adele Parks

#love

Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne ↗

— Christina Dodd

#man #rake #men

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conflation #editing #exaggeration #francis-bacon #shakespeare

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. ↗

— Beverly S. Harless

#inspirational #life #mistakes #inspirational

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#attitude #business #gentleman #him #his

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation. ↗

— Rick Rubin

#artist #best #best work #goal #hip

Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination. ↗

— Lucky Stevens

#inspirational

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game. ↗

— Al Davis

#get #plane #up #us #waiting

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#being #breakfast #course #eat #eat breakfast