#were

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#begun #coherent #conducting #declared #government

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#appeal #appealing #banished #before #dark

I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#eat #eating #friends #i #like

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#anybody #depression #different #else #everybody

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #even #exception #fischer #only

We were like bishops of opposite color. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#color #like #opposite #were

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too. ↗

— Britney Spears

#ears #feet #hair #i #i wish

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#deteriorate #eyes #going #i #knew

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. ↗

— James Spader

#alternatives #although #being #consider #especially

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #deal #first #great #great deal