#snatches

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#demands #endures #fifth #first #first kiss

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#am #business #could #despise #disgusted

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#burnt #could #else #every #feeling

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ↗

— Ovid

#away #gives #health #medicine #snatches

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. ↗

— Julian Sands

#i #patches #player #school #snatches