#loft

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

#elevated #fond #lofty #man #opinions

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them. ↗

— Edie Falco

#filled #friends #gay #helping #i

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure. ↗

— William Allen Butler

#keeps #lofty #secure #she #state

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#built #church #fifty #forty #fully

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#compete #even #first #first time #gone

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#degree #genius #go #imagination #intelligence

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ever #going #higher #ideals #live

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#away #basically #bit #chew #engaged