#thin

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#anything #could #i #life #long

But everything you do in life has a downside. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#everything #life #you

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. ↗

— Golda Meir

#against #anything #bear #children #discriminated

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#bag #because #big #body #bones

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#anything #basic #been #before #broke

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#love-hate #press #thing #truly

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#college #expect #front #go #great

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. ↗

— John Mayer

#exactly #figured #how #i #i can