#mon

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#blocks #could #dancers #full #months

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. ↗

— Bette Davis

#chance #create #dream #fulfill #given

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#brother #different #different world #europe #first

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #beauty

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star. ↗

— Bette Davis

#known #monster #star #until #you

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#beautiful music #called #chamber #classical #classical music

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #calm #chimney #commonest #corner

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#got #i #just #looks #money