#gable

...as a mark of gratitude for his previous patronage, and a slight super-added morsel after breakfast, put likewise into his hand a whale! The great fish, reversing his experience with the prophet of Nineveh, immediately began his progress down the same red pathway of fate whiter so varied a caravan had preceded him. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#the-house-of-the-seven-gables #experience

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#imagination

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#talk #world #life

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#rachel-lynde #l-m-montgomery

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-of-green-gables #violets #l-m-montgomery

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#clark gable #dog #energy #gable #gene

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#clark #clark gable #doing #enough #film

People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#because #changed #day #gable #had

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#inspirational #thoughts #inspirational

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant. ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#constant #human #human-nature #nature #people