#traps

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. ↗

— Les Dawson

#coming #i #i can #law #mice

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#binding #hate #our #tightly #too

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#lust #spagetti-straps #beauty

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#back #big #big shot #coasters #down

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#danger #deliver #failures #human #human relationships

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps. ↗

— Thomas Leonard

#often #trappings #traps

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#appreciate #because #boot #done #failed

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making