#ck

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american people #aside #falls #people

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells

Film lovers are sick people. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#film #lovers #people #sick

Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't have to be at the beginning." She'd pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting the legal pad she'd been holding drop to the floor. "I thought everything always had to start at the beginning," I said. "Not in this room," she said easily. "Go ahead, Caitlin. Just tell me one thing. It gets easier, I promise. The first thing is always the hardest." I looked down at my hands, stained mildly red from the particularly sticky watermelon Rancher. "Okay," I said, reaching forward to take another one out of the bowl, just in case. She was already sitting back in her chair, readying herself for whatever glimpse I would give her into the mess I'd become. "What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." "Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#depression #inspirational #quote #realationship #shocking

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#broken #mountains #rocks #violets

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. ↗

— Burt Rutan

#back #go #learning #moon #new

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#before #ends #everyone #getting #i