#ken

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#before #begin #encounter #even #first

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#completely #experience #expression #felt #perfect

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#because #been #dear #deep #deep down

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#barren #coming #darkness #day #drunkenness

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#earth #endowed #figure #lives #man

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath. ↗

— Fred Durst

#breath #i #just #look #now

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#books #brought #closer #discuss #family

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#directors #everybody #i #lot #rejected

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ↗

— Larry Elder

#colonel #control #demands #further #gun

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#eat #i #lot #salad #salmon