#light

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#bette davis #cagney #cigarettes #davis #glamorous

Never make a decision until you have to. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#kindlehighlight

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

#delighted #either #god #solitude #whosoever

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#genuine #going #himself #instinct #liberty

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit. ↗

— Julian Assange

#always #attacks #attract #credit #criticism

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#delighted #elected #i #obama #voted

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine. ↗

— Christian Bale

#acting #certain #circumstances #conversing #fantasy

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#snow #twilight #l-m-montgomery

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #jordan-kyle #simon-lewis #city-of-fallen-angels