#lep

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beyond #books #eat #elephant #especially

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth. ↗

— Bill Haley

#could #make #she #small #telephone

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#better #colony #leper #out #place

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ↗

— Winifred Holtby

#again #built #ceased #death #fortress

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#again #ever #first #i #never

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#existence #got #i #just #make

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#attributed #because #bed #eye #his

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#been #days #five #hair #i

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#discuss #elephant #race #room #still

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#beast #call #elephant #every #friendly