#make

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves. ↗

— Xenophanes

#bodies #cattle #draw #each #forms

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it. ↗

— Don Young

#choice #forgive #get #god #good

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#got #had #i #imagination #just

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything. ↗

— Carrot Top

#anything #because #fun #i #i always

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#attempt #been #civilization #conquest #duty

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#beautiful #beautiful music #black #make #must

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#album #any #arrangements #arranger #band

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#beauty #lazy #makeup #work #beauty

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#deception #los-angeles #make-believe #smog #southern-california

Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and dressing with care and concentration. ↗

— Carmen Reid

#humour #image #makeup #self-confidence-image #beauty