#ill

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#country #everyone #guarantee #national #survival

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#creative #creative work #funds #more #spend

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#ladies #like #never #speak #spoke

it was unmatched life experience that bestowed in her eyes the sultry gleam that separates women from girls. although she viewed her “life experience” like bruises on a peach, men of all ages still found ways to see past the indications of damaged goods long enough to offer her a drink. hell, it was less than an hour ago that one such man called her “gothic perfection” and cried on her shoulder. her boyfriend agreed that a crazy life can “grow a girl up quick”; it was only last november that she turned seventeen. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#gothic #suicide #thriller #age

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#associates #favorable #feature #forthcoming #her

I am almost 30 so I am approaching this one as if it will be my last Olympic Games. I want to put out 110 percent to make sure that I am up at the top. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#am #approaching #games #i #i am

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#am #any #automatically #difficulty #face

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#bash #canada #canadian #government #i

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#coming #flowers #hear #i #out

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗