#dim

Aye, that’s me. Rough tough squaddie with the intellectual depth of a shallow baby bath and the educational background of a hedgerow. Complicated? Yeah, right.” Dan laughed. Vadim laughed, too. “Sorry, but that just about nails it.” He grew more serious and whispered. “But you also have the heart of a tiger and the vastness of a mountain. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#love #vadim #education

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#entirely #hands #his #husband #i

What is a society without a heroic dimension? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#heroic #society #without

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#dim #face #future #into #look

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#acting class #actor #always #class #decided

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#diminish #effect #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#enjoyed #good #guess #i #lessons

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#dim #fallen #girl #light #love

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#beings #conserve #cooperate #diminishing #fight