#thin

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#bad #fun #going #i #interesting

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ↗

— George Eliot

#come #golden #gone #know #life

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. ↗

— George Eliot

#asked #being #between #decrepit #down

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#discovers #first #last #put #thing

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#anything #done #ever #funeral #got

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#believe #comes #everything #follow #follow your heart

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#am #appreciate #appreciative #attention #career

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#been #comfortable #completely #ever #i

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#does #good #him #i #just

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#like #real #real thing #reputation #shadow