#moan

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#cries #cry #cut #dragging #drill

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life. ↗

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

#hour #joy #laugh #laughter #life

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job. ↗

— Robert Smith

#fun #grown #have fun #i #i do

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#drowning #far #further #heard #him

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#beat #children #ever #feelings #grieving

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it. ↗

— Cat Deeley

#compliment #cows #girl #got #her

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bath #field #game #hockey #hot

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #case #child #could #felt

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#celebrating #credit #crunch #different #different way