#thou

Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness. ↗

— Christian Dior

#happy-thoughts #inspirational #beauty

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial ↗

— Donna Tartt

#beauty

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#ahead #back #before #even #i

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#acts #although #any #been #before

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up. ↗

— Stephen Root

#although #dress #fun #involve #lines

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#anybody #atm #banks #because #came

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#dream #interest #life #without

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#gay #heart #i #just #knew

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary. ↗

— Ed Royce

#companies #corrective #do the right thing #energy #energy companies

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world. ↗

— Bobby Short

#appreciated #black #did #even #i