#pens

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#disbelief #faith #moment #poetic #suspension

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them? ↗

— Maya Banks

#humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#back up #comes #estate #funny #funny thing

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#crime #from time to time #happens #lot #time

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#become #happens #i #just #lot

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence. ↗

— John Cusack

#adulation #again #always #cycle #discarded

I have a plot, but not much happens. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#i #much #plot