#own

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right? ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#hate #mac

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#borders #competitive #i #i always #my own

- Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what? - enquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head. - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him. - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence. And the little prince went away, puzzled. 'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#grown-ups #problem-solving #self-respect #faith

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#day #only #only time #own #read

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#among #architectural #describe #details #enough

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. ↗

— George Weah

#brown #chicken #christmas #could #died

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#eternity #every #faces #future #great

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#down #feeling #general #get #how

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cards #eat #man #mom #never

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#i #little #me #my own #own