#intimate

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fragments #intimate-notes #letters #marilyn-monroe #poems

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#every #every day #get #house #i

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #civilizations #contact #dust #intimate

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#another woman #basically #been #career #ever

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ↗

— George Washington

#before #confidence #courteous #few #give

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#formed #individuals #intimates #our #parents

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#everyday #intimate #medical #medical research #occurrence