#bet

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#better #ghosts #queen-of-the-dead #reason #attitude

Your Majesty, I'm afraid everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong," said Major Sir Michael Parker, an impresario for royal events with an expertise in pyrotechnics. "Oh good, what fun!" she replied with a smile. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#queen-elizabeth #attitude

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. ↗

— Billy Zane

#care #enjoying #enough #i #know

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#believe #better #closer #death #died

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#better-go #just #leaving #words #beauty

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#attracts #audiences #easy #exciting #great

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#beauty

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#being #being used #between #body #dance

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#die #feet #knees #live #than