#quit

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#desire #foundations #gone #increase #join

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#cool #front #his #i #john

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#could #dark #doubt #eat #enough

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#talent #unrequited-love #words #beauty

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. ↗

— Nicole Miller

#fashion #french #had #home #i

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. ↗

— Jim Morris

#around #easily #get #i #long

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. ↗

— Christina Westover

#inspiration #life #lily-sauvage #love #muse

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. ↗

— Jan Morris

#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#baritone #i #money #played #quite

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #believe #characters #could #emotional