#gem

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. ↗

— Lisa Kogan

#life-lessons #people #life

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#change #cheesy #end #even #go

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ↗

— Colin Firth

#almost #because #choices #comedy #errors

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#arrangement #never #notes #played #speech

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me! ↗

— Gary Patton

#business-success #christianity #judgement #business

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour. ↗

— Obie Trice

#another #beautiful #beautiful thing #i #loved

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ↗

— Virgil

#stratagem #strife #used #whether #who

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#cannot #facts #get #going #judgements