#high

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#men

But here is the truly shocking statistic: nearly all of that money is devoted to treating symptoms. ↗

— Jr.

#money

Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cookies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them. (from) "The High Window ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#men

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#money

It didn't matter. Carson wasn’t the one for me. He wasn’t even the one for right now. My life would hopefully have its great love story but this wasn't it. It would happen in D.C. in the next four years or it would happen in Africa, if I ever got there, or in Sienna or, for all I knew, Kentucky or Timbuktu. Life was long. And people only really had great love affairs in high school in the movies. And maybe during world wars. But this was not a movie and not a war, even if it sometimes felt that way. It was only high school and it was almost over with anyway. ↗

— Tara Altebrando

#life #love #the-one #love

They really cut to the chase in the urologist’s examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R. ↗

— Mike Birbiglia

#movies

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #love #music #school #love

She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#love

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#nature

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality—the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#nature