#be

You kissed me, and I opened my eyes and thought you were Death. You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I clung to the memory of you because it gave me comfort—the only bit of happiness I had ever had. You were my secret fantasy, my lover. My story… Lord Death is you, and the woman he stalks…is me.” “Why have you come,” he asked, “when you now know the truth?” “Because when you saved me, you forged a link between us. I don’t believe it will ever break.” “Bella,” he whispered, “I couldn’t allow you to take your life. Couldn’t bear the thought of existing in a world that you did not. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella #jude #seduction-and-scandal #beauty

My entire life has been a lie. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#entire #entire life #lie #life

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#career #come #hell #lot #means

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. ↗

— James Darren

#back #because #better #better thing #center

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever. ↗

— James Darren

#biggest #biggest influence #career #ever #i

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis. ↗

— Eric Davis

#eric #famous #i #just #people

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#created #each #explanation #gain #having

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#clear #could #lot #nice #nominations