#elf

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! ↗

— George Washington Cable

#craft #cross #curious #daughter #herself

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#act #aloud #courageous #most #still

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#down #from time to time #go #go away #important

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#attach #best #course #degree #himself

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#image #kind #make #myself #outlaw

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#day #fantasy #fun #go #happy

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#apply #aware #became #best #beyond

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. ↗

— William Feather

#certainly #difficult #here #inspiration #intelligent

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#condition #first #himself #his #labor

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. ↗

— Dean Cain

#buddhist #call #catholic #christian #down