#irs

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#first-class #fly #get #i #i do

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#children #could #first #i #if i could

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#continuation #done #enough #first #get

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. ↗

— Dario Fo

#comedy #existing #makes #possible #state

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#affordable #also #america #another #cancer

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dancing #first #gave #grandfather #guitar

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#credit #driver #executive #first-rate #more

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#five #i #second #ten #third