#era

Sometimes he spend hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature." From "The Adventure of the German Student ↗

— Washington Irving

#literature #reading #food

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#cried #day #desperately #every #every day

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations. ↗

— David Knopfler

#album #around #car #content #drive

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#average #back #ball games #definitely #football

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools! ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#content #drunkeness #eat #food-for-thought #fools

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#beauty #creativity #editor #everyone #help

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out. ↗

— John Knowles

#either #ever #generation #got #just

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. ↗

— Frank Knox

#civilization #finer #heart #i #i believe

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. ↗

— Frank Knox

#i #liberal #made #mercy #progress