#stick

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. ↗

— Carole Lombard

#code #designed #first #fit #forget

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#found #good #good idea #i #idea

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#cover #exposed #going #government #i

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#care #change #charge #employer #find

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#beauty #being #comfortable #lipstick #me

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #dreams #lipstick #messages #mirrors

He was old-fashioned looking, Grace decided. Not just the suit, which made him look as though he should be taking the air in one of those fifties movies on the French Riviera, but as if he was the second male lead in one of those same films. Not matinee-idol handsome enough to get the girl, but good enough to be the best friend of the one who got the girl. Or the arch nemesis of the one who got the girl who had his comeuppance ten minutes before the credits began to roll. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#movies

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you. ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#foot #life #out #sticks #trip

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#bite #dynamite #even #fast #funny

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#gong #house #i #just #kid