#ip

Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me. ↗

— James Patterson

#flying #friendship #funny #humor #lol

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#anymore #because #been #different #doubt

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#faded #flowers #friendship

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. ↗

— Ben Stein

#anticipated #days #fast #few #getting

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ↗

— Ben Stein

#advancement #fertile #grows #life #personal

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#ceased #continues #long #many #movement

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#feet #four #hair #hoarse #neck

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discipline #dishonesty #punishes #stupidity #word