#lines

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus. But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran. ↗

— Emmy Laybourne

#monument- #love

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

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

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#carrey #comes #consummate #his #jim

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#alone #come #compel #every #every man

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#between #cannot #dividing #lines #make

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#discovers #ever #his #loneliness #own

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. ↗

— Ken Buck

#deadlines #enemy #going #i #telling