#rings

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#i #less #suffering #wisdom #wise

There is a time when even justice brings harm. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #harm #justice #time

Rowena Clark and I had met on the first day of our mixed media class. I’d sat down at her table and said, “Mind if I join you? Figure the best way to learn about art is to sit with a masterpiece.” Maybe I was in love, but I was still Adrian Ivashkov. Rowena had fixed me with a flat look. “Let’s get one thing straight. I can see through crap a mile away, and I like girls, not guys, so if you can’t handle me telling you what’s what, then you’d better take your one-liners and hair gel somewhere else. I don’t go to this school to put up with pretty boys like you. I’m here to face dubious employment options with a painting degree and then go get a Guinness after class.” I’d scooted my chair closer to the table. “You and I are going to get along just fine. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#carlton-college #flirting #palm-springs #richelle-mead #the-fiery-heart

The sexy don't get wrinkles, they add love lines like a tree adds rings. So climb on them for the view. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #sexiness #tree-rings

For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#arathorn #dwarves #free-people-of-the-world #gimli #gloin

I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#cast #cook #earrings #gold #i

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars. ↗

— Ralph Lauren

#big #collars #earrings #exciting #falling

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. ↗

— Joe Louis

#guy #just #once #other #own

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#because #being #big #big fish #brings

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard