#or

Pushing Carson back out of the door, I grabbed my jacket off the hook and shoved my feet into the great old clogs that my poor podiatrist father wants outlawed. "Don't you want to change or something?" Mom called after me. "She'll never change," Carson answered, and followed me down the steps. I settled myself into the passenger seat and buckled up as he back out of the driveway. "Your arches are falling?" "Turns out I am deeply flawed," I admitted. ↗

— Rachel Vail

#josephine-dondorff #love #change

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. ↗

— Lance Burton

#been #beginning #dove #doves #first

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#between #cry #enemy #i #morning

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#blunder #former #however #may #native

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States. ↗

— Columba Bush

#born #children #first #first lady #grandchildren

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way. ↗

— Tim Burton

#certain way #evil #going #kill #kiss

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dies #goes #life #rotten #soulless

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#dr #favorite #growing #growing up #his

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#being #between #dark #i #interests