#thin

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#desire #everything #honor #idol #idols

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#ever #good #lasts #long #nothing

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

I don't do things that are illegal. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#illegal #things

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#around #beginning #come #comedy #did

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#character #i #i think #like #people

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#good-looking #handed #people #strong #teeth

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#degree #egocentric #family #i #i care

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#being #constantly #difficulties #dynamic #everybody

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#exists #go #gone #happiness #i