#silver

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#brass #coins #current #gold #honor

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #bridges #contemporary-poetry #dreams #meaning

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. ↗

— Germanicus

#denied #determine #gods #gold #i

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#audience #good #long #looking #looks

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#crazy #friendship #love #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen. ↗

— Roman Payne

#dreams #europe #lies #movies #roman-payne

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. ↗

— Aberjhani

#classic-quotes #faith #grace #hope #ignorance

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends? ↗

— Matthew Quick

#quick #the-silver-linings-playbook #love

Would it hurt him, just once, to do what she wanted and shut up about it? "If I wasn't sure," she snapped, "I wouldn't have said.... ow shitshitshitshitshit!" She dropped the wand again to clutch the top of her head, which she'd just slammed against the underside of the sink. It hurt, enough to bring tears to her eyes, and she dropped back to sit on the floor and cradle her head, completely defeated. "Ow. And don't you dare open that door." Naturally, he opened the door. ↗

— Kendra Leigh Castle

#humor #nature

Every crowd has a silver lining. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#every #lining #silver