#away

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. ↗

— Jill Eikenberry

#carry #child #gives #gremlins #him

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#aesthetic #art #away #emotion #favorable

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied

Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#again #anymore #away #ever #feeling

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#blankets #cool #kindliness #kiss #male

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#beautiful #because #dumb #get #most

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#away #gave #given #had #i

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#back #down #felt #getting #give

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#chuck #i #light #things #traveller

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #country #did #down #falling