#sign

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#common #directly #inorganic #life #may

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else. ↗

— Jay London

#else #i #lane #left #said

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough. ↗

— Jay London

#enough #i #join #me #said

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#anything #cardinal #college #could #education

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#before #clothes #designing #different #directing

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it! ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#book #could #designer #dirty #doctor

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#does #everything #instrument #little #man

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#contract #could #independent #kind #mgm

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#now #sign #work #years