#ding

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ↗

— Noël Coward

#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#freedom #reading #freedom

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#friends #friendship #reflection #time #understanding

[W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his body as rhythmically and erotically and seductively as a woman--that was the forbidden territory he had entered. It was not only repulsive and offensive--it was nauseating--the word most used. It was an attack on male dignity. The kids, however, not yet grown into the stereotypes of gender, saw in him an exhilarating physical freedom. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#genderbending #freedom

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#companionship #friends #friendship #god #reading

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#noblest #pleasure #understanding

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#gardening #reading #sharonlovejoy-s-trowel-error #friendship

Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#drama #first-love #friendship #inspirational #life

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#american #englishmen #frenchmen #irishman #pacing

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#empathy #friendship #knowing #knowledge #meeting