#ale

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#either #enough #i #i think #shortage

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #family

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph. ↗

— James Larkin

#cast #creatures #enlarged #got #horrid

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#because #days #did #discourse #either

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#being #constructed #creator #culture #differences

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#forgiveness #joke #tales #forgiveness

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#dangerous #granted #guy #hard #hard work

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#like #murder #occasionally #run #seems

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent. ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#fingers #given #god #got #mine