#being

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#being mad #inclined #inspired #mad #poetry

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ↗

— Montserrat Caballe

#give #give me #impossible #me #moment

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#being #close #gifts #her #i

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#being #boy #brought #change #committed

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#affections #always #been #being #correct

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#being #feeling #hand #living #me

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#each #frank #friends #loses #other

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#being #being smart #dumb #get #men

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#being #born #handicap #i #key

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#comprehensible #embracing #through #world