#ran

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#away #called #could #find #grass

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. ↗

— David Byrne

#cycling #day #depending #faster #head

Worship is transcendent wonder. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#wonder #worship

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. ↗

— David Byrne

#anything #because #deal #everyday #grand

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. ↗

— David Byrne

#am #become #certain #certain things #easier

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. ↗

— David Byrne

#happen #i #i write #life #my life

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. ↗

— Lord Byron

#strange #strange thing #stranger #thing #woman

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. ↗

— Lord Byron

#been #bred #business #butcher #cleaver

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#dracula #historian #transylvania #beauty