#tick

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #lipstick #marilyn-monroe #self-improvement #beauty

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#beauty #being #comfortable #lipstick #me

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#beauty #chanel #change #designer #fashion

The outside world is a design of our imagination. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#christopher-dines-quotes #design

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #dreams #lipstick #messages #mirrors

I wrote a thesis on love, and I wrote it in lipstick. Of course, I also got blood on the paper, because the lipstick was still attached to her cheating lips. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #lipstick #love #thesis #funny

If I ever go to China, I’m going to find a piano and play “Chopsticks”--only not with my fingers, but rather I’ll be using two forks. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#chopsticks #funny #piano #random #funny

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#bad-company #bad-influence #evil #evil-people #evil-thoughts

It’s always good to give respect, even when you might not feel it’s due. It serves two purposes in particular: one, you’ll soothe the angry beast, should the person have a temper—by visually and verbally submitting to their imagined authority, and; two, by displaying that you acknowledge their authority (especially if others don’t), you are likely to gain favor which can be used to your advantage. ↗

— Höbin Luckyfeller

#hobin-luckyfeller #jaime-buckley #wanted-hero #imagination

Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind. ↗

— Chip Heath

#imagination