#we

What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#be the first #echoes #first #forever #hath

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ↗

— John Mortimer

#life #milk #modern #shelf #shelf life

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph. ↗

— John Mortimer

#carry #copy #daily #duty #england

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#been #between #escape #fantasy #fiction

And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#cammon #romantic #sweet #romantic

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#field #i #track #track and field #went

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#completely #drawers #house #organized

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#chain #city #concert #concert hall #every

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep