#hee

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm. ↗

— Ernest Lehman

#black #black sheep #just #sheep #warm

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#cripple #house #pitied #pity #stay

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. ↗

— Lavrenti Lopes

#craft #dedication #dustin #dustin hoffman #hoffman

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#engineering #heel #human #itself #little

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#body #consciousness #different #different attitude #heel

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#boots #brown #committed #conjecture #dreams

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. ↗

— Franz Marc

#blue #brutal #cheerful #colour #female

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World! ↗

— Cotton Mather

#chase #destructive #done #ignorance #out

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#count #ever #generally #glad #governor