#dies

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#friend #little #me #something #succeeds

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. ↗

— Carole King

#both #contemporary #current #energy #enjoy

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name—he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse. ↗

— Diana Palmer

#experience

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cut #found #had #indians #into

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet. ↗

— Chris Evans

#blockbusters #doing #either #feet #films

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#bodies #breath #determined #life #other

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bodies #emerging #exposed #i #long

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell