#your

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ↗

— Merry Browne

#count #friends #want #worth #you

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels. ↗

— Merry Browne

#lost #marvels #old #you #your

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#country #crawl #drop #fall #fire

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they? ↗

— Alan Cumming

#always #arkansas #boy #cannot #earth

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#daunting #good #once #really #way

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things. ↗

— Felicia Hemans

#fortitude #hearts #hoping #silent #suffering

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it. ↗

— Kaley Cuoco

#get #gets #job #show #used

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#artist #figured #got #helps #identity

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#could #jail #judge #keep #killer