#ow

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#fills #heart #ills #know #mother

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#end #i #lose #moment #shall

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#first #food #fun #glamour #going

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#bands #biggest #concerts #coolest #coolest thing

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#film #how #i #i am #never

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#gnaws #hearts #i #i love #know

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now. ↗

— Shiri Appleby

#assumed #because #been #coming #constantly