#ear

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#dancer #earn #hand #you

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#balm #drooping #healing #heart #honey

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#always #first #friend #look #many

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. ↗

— Bo Bice

#contestants #first #folks #get #green

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#feet #heartbeat #little

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#come #deep #enough #good #only

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#less #light #more #must #omit

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux. ↗

— Tim Allen

#beautiful #big #cues #dress #even

She looked... She looked young, and- and--" I glanced down at Rossana gazing up at me, lips parted, eyes shining, her hair loose around her shoulders, and the next words I spoke were intended with no artifice at all. "She is almost as beautiful as you." There was laughter, and I looked up, confused. "If you wish to pay court to my daughter, Matteo, you must first speak to me," Captain dell'Orte said in mock severity. Rossana's face colored pink. "Elizabetta is also very beautiful," I said quickly, thinking to cover any embarassment, but also because it was true. The adults roared with laughter. "Now Matteo seeks to woo both girls with one compliment. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#humor #leonardo-da-vinci #matteo #ten-year-old-boy #beauty