#ld

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#cut #down #kind #mount #nixon

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie) ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#better #clothes #money #shop #shopping

Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #phonies #the-catcher-in-the-rye #movies

The fact that you just said The Jerk is your favorite movie ever is incredibly fucking hot and I'm pretty sure we need to make out now. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#movies

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#inconceivable #incredible #itself #like #music

Mitch---" "All right, baby, I'll shut you up." Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the history of all time. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#mara-mitch #rock-my-world #dreams

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. ↗

— John Keats

#nothing #only #stable #uproar #world

There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#kaia #lords-of-the-underworld #music

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#end #final #glory #god #music

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down! ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#children #coolness #music #noise #parenting