#terri

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ↗

— Libba Bray

#boarding-schools #gemma-doyle #humor #libba-bray #beauty

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#additions #admit #already #benefit #common

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#after #ago #buying #camera #debt

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. ↗

— Judi Dench

#always #designer #going #i #keen

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#could #institution #longer #me #readers

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#also #because #doing #everything #i

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#good #good script #more #script #terrible

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beautiful #even #mood #nature #terrifying

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. ↗

— John Dyer

#someone #terrible #terrible thing #thing #tragedy