#lines

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#music #refuge #music

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#solitude #women

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#differences #emotions #loneliness #people #personality

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#airlines #had #i #lot #money

So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #cute #dangerous #kissing #love

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#computer #i #like #lines #lot

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#american #around #built #business #century

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

#alone #contain #doctrine #fountains #godliness

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cleanliness #housekeeping #experience

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#extensive #great #information #lines #machines