#phrase

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet. ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#diet

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#paraphrased #dreams

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. ↗

— Dick Francis

#paraphrased #weirdness #humor

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#paraphrased #light

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#gentlemen #paraphrased #universal-truths #envy

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#always #am #bad #defective #english