#thou

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#deteriorate #entirely #feels #get #hope

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#continuing #either #emphasis #find #got

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. ↗

— George Grey

#another #arrival #been #before #cargo

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl. ↗

— Pam Grier

#i #jungle #little #little girl #thought

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. ↗

— John Grierson

#appreciation #attend #changes #creative #forces

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything. ↗

— Merv Griffin

#could #doubt #ever #greatest #him

I always thought of Levittown as a joke. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#i #i always #joke #thought

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#dynamics #i #make #me #mistake

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#biggest thing #burger #burger king #get #had