#pen

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#careful #decadent #go #i #i am

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#because #cannon #early #early age #feel

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.' ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#bat #because #children #everyone #gay

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#escape #eye #few #penetrating #retreats

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#being #cannot #going #happen #hard

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

Faith is a state of openness or trust. ↗

— Alan Watts

#openness #state #trust

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#dependence #i #india #iranian #know

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#different #diplomacy #open #part #self-interest