#ark

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#eyes #intentions #mark #portrait #soul

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#after #am #chambers #darkest #delve

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.' ↗

— Tom Coburn

#demolished #earmark #earmarks #eye #factory

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #fish #funny #humor #prostitutes

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price. ↗

— Joel Coen

#free #lucky #made #make #movies

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#already #barking #been #campaign #colonialism

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#angle #approach #ask #base #customer

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not. ↗

— Judy Collins

#attention #determines #factors #hear #just