#bs

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. ↗

— George Byron

#depend #down #go #high #may

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#every man #genius #grows #into #man

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#bodies #cloudy #dead #distance #endeavor

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #face #follows #just #like

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon! ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#absolutely #afternoon #bridge #draw #i

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. ↗

— Seth Low

#altogether #another #brotherhood #city #dependence

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#both #exactly #films #i #jobs

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#connected #everything #life #love #love is

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet