#leave

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#horror #house-of-leaves #insightful #insight

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ↗

— Jim Henson

#been #better #difference #having #hope

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#highland #leaves-of-grass #nature #poetry #song

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#i #leave #life #model #moment

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #christmas #cole #gotta #holidays

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. ↗

— Travis Barker

#friday #i #kids #leave #monday

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#four #grandchildren #guess #husband #i

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #arena #bad #been #believed