#pear

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#appearance #buffalo #cannot #emigrants #four

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#musical theater #shakespeare #sondheim #theater #world

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#ibsen #pay #rarely #rent #shakespeare

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#back #both #call #cycling #directions

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#appear #however #insurmountable #may #mysterious

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#around #country #elvis #first #flew

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#came #certainly #come #did #i

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. ↗