#ape

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cape #deal #drawers #get #go

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#day #every #every day #exercise #feel

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#colours #degree #happen #happening #nothing

I'm not in shape. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#shape

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#depends #order #shape #upon #which

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that. ↗

— Jo Brand

#again #because #excruciating #extremely #husband

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#cannot #driven #escape #hell #may