#ms

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms. ↗

— Usher

#condoms #eye #gave #grandmother #guess

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#goal #his #living #makes #person

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#journey #maps #pilgrims #road #same

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#california #cliff #culturally #economically #fiscally

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #good #home #i #just

Jesus, Laurie, baby, look at you." My eyes followed his, mainly because I wanted him to keep at me and I'd do just about anything he told me to do to get it. But what I saw made my heart skip and my legs fail. Tate, dark, tall, behind me, his hands on me; me, blonde, my face flushed, my eyes hooded, tucked tight against him. A perfect fit, made to be there. A perfect match, made to be together. Made to be there. Made to be together. We looked great. We looked hot. We looked beautiful. My eyes went to his in the mirror. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#lauren #sweet-dreams #tate #beauty

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman .... ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #dreams

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. ↗

— Paz Vega

#chinese #contemporary #films #going #i