#making

In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms. ↗

— John Banville

#sex #love

Although "making love" may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so much make love as they are remade by love--dipped into the fire, melted down, reshaped. If they are devoted to one another, love will transform them, dissolving the shells of their old separate selves and making them anew. ↗

— Scott Russell Sanders

#making-love #love

Why are you always in such a hurry, Mr. Lipwig?” “Because people don’t like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#change

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#gossip #impact #influencing-skills #inspiring-quotes #making-an-impression

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fortunate #fortune #improving-chances #lottery #luck

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-genuine #building-relationships #inspirational-quotes #making-friends #meeting-people

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#filmmaking #inspirational #life #passion #responsibility

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#art #full #into #joy #kind

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#bear #behind #easier #follow #i