#keeping

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#gentlemen #hands #keeping #placed #portrait

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ↗

— Shirley Conran

#couches #housekeeping #inspirational #rest #resting

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

#art #consists #coughing #keeping #people

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

#demented #fresh #got #humming #hundreds

The boat was vacuum-packed with Albanians, four generations to a family: great-grandmother, air-dried like a chilli pepper, deep red skin and a hot temper; grandmother, all sun-dried tomato, tough, chewy, skin split with the heat; getting the kids to rub olive oil into her arms; mother, moist as a purple fig, open everywhere - blouse, skirt, mouth, eyes, a wide-open woman, lips licking the salt spray flying from the open boat. Then there were the kids, aged four and six, a couple of squirs, zesty as lemons. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#age

Ah, gods, hope. Our savior and our tormentor, the price and ferry pass for the dreams that carry us to the future. ↗

— Amy Lane

#dreams

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#beach #concealing #illness #keeping #like

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#comedy #did #director #exactly #job

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#age #am #bracket #concern #example

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#also #better #better place #conservative #could