#w

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#bend #get #heads #our #over

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#hope #ingenious #most #physician #who

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#comes #destroy #down #everything #head

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#friendship #like #love #love is #sheltering

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#certain #far #find #furnishing #i

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#friendship #mechanism #oil #politeness #refined

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#had #i #only #realized #sooner

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#am #away #born #country #face

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#early #early stages #insomnia #oasis #refuge