#ay

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. ↗

— James Beattie

#blasted #dawn #days #delightful #each

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#boyfriend #even #forced #get #i

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ↗

— Walter Pater

#dramatic #finest #given #how #life

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#buy #concerned #dress #less #lives

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#my own #out #own #say #should

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. ↗

— Les Paul

#fingers #first #five #go #got

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. ↗

— Tony Benn

#dangerous #disagrees #each #find #first

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#i #i write #mind #out #plays