#pa

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#company #far #hotels #i #intended

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#despair #leo-tolstoy #love #sadness #beauty

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #capability #carry #critical #cyber

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#apart #because #believe #communications #conditions

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#conversation #friendship #beauty

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #i can #painful #particularly #say

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#cut #good #minuscule #our #salaries

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #like #me #money #parents

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#dolly #dolly parton #i #me #mom

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#inspiring #painting #singing #writing #beauty