#amor

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#amusing #philosophy #tamora-pierce #stupidity

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#draw #ended #everything #except #glamorous

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular! ↗

— Paulina Rubio

#clothing #entrances #glamorous #i #i love

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#amorality #corruption #cynicism #growing-old #hopelessness

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #empathy #immorality #morality #reason

Jamás sanaría su repulsa a la gente bienpensante, al aburrimiento como fuente de pensamiento, al lado cursi del amado, del arte, del poderoso el lamento, del cristiano, del ayuntamiento, amando, como amaba, la estulticia de la bohemia. ↗

— Anna Pantinat

#bohemia #repulsas #art

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur. ↗

— Angela Carter

#the-bloody-chamber #the-tigers-bride #transformation #beauty

I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse. ↗

— Robert Muchamore

#cherub-the-recruit #robert-muchamore #business

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#anyone #anything #been #book #get