#ros

Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#gross #maybe #me #pizza #play

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#capote #heterosexual #i #i am #truman

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#big #come #deniro #exciting #first

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #fitzgerald #happiness #rose #roses

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#long #roses #wine

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#way

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#energy #got #hasn #just #prose