#mom

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. ↗

— Amy Smart

#best #enjoying #getting #gift #heads

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#age

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. ↗

— Robert Towne

#dialogue #entirely #faces #fact #important

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#bad-moms #moonlight-mile #anger

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#art #creativity #epiphanic-moment #epiphany #inspirational

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#imagine #no-matter-what-you-say #no-metter-what-you-do #sara-quin #stop-the-world-for-a-moment

You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss her off. You hang around this band because they make you feel like you belong. And most days you wish you were in a band of your own, but you know that probably will never happen." I met his eyes waiting. I'm twenty. my mother has an assload of tattoos herself, she thinks its art. I have a lip ring because it turns girls on when I do this." He licked his lip, lingering on the metal for a couple intense seconds. My eyes fluttered with nervousness. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #love-story #memorable #music #wit

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere. ↗

— André Aciman

#monet #my-monet-moment #travel #art

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#moments #money #turning #worst #writing