#bit

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#enjoyment #fade #habit #lasts #only

Fat bitch," Kessa murmured as the door scraped closed behind Mrs. Stone. "She meant well, Francesca. And you see, everyone thinks you're too thin." "Since when is Mrs. Stone an authority on appearance. I've heard you say a thousand times that she looks like an old hooker." "I never said anything of the sort. What I said was that she wears too much makeup and her clothes are indiscreet." "Which means she looks like an old hooker. Well, if that's the way a woman is supposed to look, I'd rather be too skinny." Kessa felt a flash of pleasure at the argument. Just let her mother try to push food into her now. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#argument #bitch #eating-disorder #fat #fight

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#goal #honest #i #once #oriented

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#because #behind #bit #classy #could

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented. ↗

— John Turturro

#ambitious #stars #think #you

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#always #bit #exciting #i #i always

I am not a creature of habit. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#creature #habit #i #i am

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! ↗

— Emma Thompson

#bits #cut #daughter #dolls #felt

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#alien #experiencing #fever #industrialists #inhabited