#y

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#everything #i #left #little #very

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#back #blue #circle #created #criticism

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#any #background #gold #islands #landscape

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#came #could #culture #dancing #different

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#i #i think #i write #me #mysterious

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#called #could #doing #favorite #i

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cambridge #camera #classes #days #even

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#argue #necessary #order #them #things

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#chaos #clarity #confusion #denial #enough

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood. ↗

— Ned Beatty

#bless #god #god bless #hollywood #i