#kip

I sometimes skip meals when I travel. ↗

— Amy Smart

#meals #skip #sometimes #travel

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart; 'till the Devil wispered from behind the leaves "it's pretty, but is it art? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#what-is-art #art

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories! ↗

— A.B. Guthrie

#childhood-memory #childhood-stories #dickens #interview-transcription #kipling

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead. ↗

— Sinbad

#could #dead #dvds #enough #even

A sharp bolt of hunger hit Luther hard. His knees almost buckled, his poker face almost grimaced. For two weeks now his sense of smell had been much keener, no doubt a side effect of a strict diet. Maybe he got a whiff of Mabel's finest, he wasn't sure, but a craving came over him. Suddenly, he had to have something to eat. Suddenly, he wanted to snatch the bag from Kendall, rip open a package, and start gnawing on a fruitcake. ↗

— John Grisham

#fruitcake #humor #humour #skipping-christmas #diet

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#kipling #soul #education

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life