#be

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#hardboiled #humour #noir #beauty

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side. ↗

— Christo

#because #chances #decision #deliberately #difficult

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion. ↗

— Gower Champion

#embellish #emotion #enlarge #existing #extend

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#being #circumstance #either #hand #happy

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #deaths #died #just #keep

I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you to be sure, in case this time - out of, say, 10,000 departures I never made it back: although after 50 years together, 2 countries, 3 children, and several former journeys that would put this one to shame you’d think there’d be no need to pause on my own doorstep, suddenly afraid of the distance between us, of your absolute beauty, of the growing aloneness when I clicked the latch. ↗

— Peter Bland

#peter-bland #beauty

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#been #destroy #every #images #revolution

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. ↗

— Noel Coward

#been #just #lisa #looks #mona