#even

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#being #even #good #good manager #got

I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue…very blue…almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this…seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #seventeen #dreams

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#constant #even #faithful #mistress #threats

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#first #habit #knowing #nature #neither

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about! ↗

— David Prowse

#asked #casting #clockwork #come #course

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#damned #day #even #i #i always

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#another #dead #earth #even #go

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#bath #enough #even #fleas #go

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines