#i

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #artist #contrary #does #everyone

Memory is more indelible than ink. ↗

— Anita Loos

#ink #memory #more #than

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home. ↗

— Anita Loos

#always #delightful #feel #home #i

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

It would have been so easy to believe every word he said and drive off with him into the moonlight like a scene from a fairy tale. But I wasn’t meant for happily ever after in my past life, and it was starting to seem like this one wouldn’t be any different. ↗

— Michelle Madow

#life

Here's some advice. Stay alive," says Haymitch, and then bursts out laughing. I exchange a look with Peeta before I remember that I'm having nothing more to do with him. I'm surprised to see the hardness in his eyes. He generally seems so mild. 'That's very funny,' says Peeta. Suddenly, he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. 'Only not to us.' Haymitch considers this a moment, then punches Peeta in the jaw, knocking him from his chair. When he turns back to reach for the spirits, I drive my knife into the table between his hand and the bottle, barely missing his fingers. I brace myself to deflect his hit, but it doesn't come. Instead, he sits back and squints at us. 'Well, what's this?' says Haymitch. 'Did I actually get a pair of fighters this year? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #the-hunger-games #funny

I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#been #boyfriend #earth #every #i

I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#beckham #call #david #did #exposing

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#believe #disease #even #great #i

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#cooking #days #food #happier #her