#anti

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#i #know #person

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#anticipation #back #city #come #dread

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy. ↗

— Jill Bennett

#desperate #lesbian #need #romantic

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#children #doll #girl #her #more

We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much. ↗

— Nicole Christie

#beauty

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ↗

— John Bright

#argument #balance #balance of power #never #peace

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ↗

— Les Brown

#come #compelling #enough #hunger #invariably

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#compared #done #horror #horror movie #i

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. ↗

— Jane Campion

#also #amazing #been #byron #close