#race

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?" "Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it. ↗

— Kimberly Montague

#bastard #betrayal #brother #car #cars

I can't even begin to describe it. Just seeing his face when I close my eyes makes my heart seem ready to run away and join him, wherever he is. ↗

— S.N. Naeole

#love #robert #love

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#glances #love #love

Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #jesse-mccartney #thalia-grace #humor

Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge." We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas. The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents. "Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s." "Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said. Graver sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States." Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?" "Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture." "She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said. "Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. "So annoying." "I wish she were here," I said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #percy-jackson #thalia-grace #zoe-nightshade #architecture

The human race has improved everything, but the human race. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#human #human race #improved #race

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore. ↗

— Tony Stewart

#anything #car #freedom #get #go

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#character #easy #embrace #extreme #find

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. ↗

— Sting

#children #example #get #good #gracefully

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#always #began #competitions #daniel #did