#thing

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#life #need #things #vain #life

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

...because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass. ↗

— Arlaina Tibensky

#humor #life #life

... "I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Christians describe the Enemy as one "without whom Nothing is strong". And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them ... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#life

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. ↗

— Al Green

#camera #could #everything #film #i

Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens. ↗

— Jennifer Manske Fenske

#life-lessons #living #life

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grand thing #grander #love #loved #still

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. ↗

— William Godwin

#his #loves #reach #reading #within

Biting her lip to stop her chin from quivering, Alexandra raised her eyes to his. "I think," she whispered, trying to smile, "I shall wear the ruby on Queen's Race day, so that when I tie my ribbon on your sleeve—" With a groan, Jordan pulled her into his arms. "Now that you've said all those other things," she whispered when he finally lifted his lips from hers several minutes later, "do you think you could possibly say 'I love you'? I've been waiting to hear that since you began and—" "I love you," he said fiercely. "I love you," he whispered softly, burying his face in her hair. "I love you," he groaned, kissing her lips. "I love you, I love you, I love you… ↗

— Judith McNaught

#jordan #judith-mcnaught #something-wonderful #love