#ali

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so. ↗

— Laura Harrington

#coming-of-age #father-daughter #fiction #iraq-war #age

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#awhile #caliber #good #kind #other

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man! ↗

— Nate Ruess

#around #biggest #biggest influence #booth #candles

I am familiar with the modern world – of thirty years ago. Since then, I have stayed modern and the world has accelerated into the dark ages. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #medievalism #modernity #old-fashioned

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life. ↗

— Ian Rush

#around #became #because #been #better

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. ↗

— Dora Russell

#co-operation #common #common good #competitiveness #expect

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. ↗

— George William Russell

#even #ireland #material #mightiest #more

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#ancient #becomes #before #comfort #discussion

Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits. ↗

— Brené Brown

#spirituality #vulnerability #art

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#claire #daughters #i #john #married