#more

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#anything #could #far #had #i

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#absolutely not #aristocratic #change #creature #exuberant

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#more #prayer #requires #than #tongue

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#bible #excited #get #i #know

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bit #cover #fact #few #good

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#artist #attention #confine #finds #greater

Faith is more basic than language or theology. ↗

— Sydney Carter

#faith #language #more #than #theology

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#am #asking #extremely #fuss #going

A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#another woman #because #bed #before #does