#trait

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #jane-grey #truth #life

I love that sassy name! Zoozle! ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#love

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friends #traitor #treachery #die

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#money #portraits #professionally #you

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#more #office #portrait #saint #thomas

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. ↗

— David Walliams

#gentleman #i #know #like #retired

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#i #interested #literary #loved #many

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#does #effects #explain #features #founder