#only

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#feather #happen #interesting #interesting thing #mattress

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #eat #four #hours #less

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#czech #every #feel #go #gold

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#any #describe #described #hardly #only

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #consideration #ever #found #hack

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#exaggerates #forgets #i #only #regard

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #greatest pleasures #narrowly #only #pleasures

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#dangerously #death #fate #felt #getting

For now, I'll let you plead temporary amnesia," he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own. ↗

— Magan Vernon

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-romance #the-only-exception #trey-chapman #contemporary-romance

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine