#tart

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#better #better place #beyond #day #every

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#admired #already #beatles #choices #i

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. ↗

— Bette Davis

#advantage #attractive #become #looking #make-up

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#dark #dark side #earth #fast #glow

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#environment #himself #his #introvert #never

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. ↗

— David Crosby

#big #companies #definitely #get #lawyers

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#begin #format #get #got #i

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. ↗

— Anna Held

#am #bath #cold #courage #early