#ge

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something. ↗

— James Carville

#elbows #sharp #something #want #you

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter? ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#shock #smile #marriage

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it. ↗

— Betty Carter

#beginning #fight #get #getting #going

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#being #case #composer #encouraged #even

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#flow #german #i #paris #refugees

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity. ↗

— Gary Carter

#big #big leagues #coach #get #i

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#boobs #carry #could #generous #gives

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#everyone #hate #i #image #me

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #control #create #escape #got