#dora

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. ↗

— Alexandra Ripley

#books #cereal #deodorant #like #perfume

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

#adoration #christian #christian life #father #gather

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? ↗

— Jean Kerr

#adorable #beauty #being #deep #enough

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#cannot #care #did #even #go

Success is a great deodorant. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#great #success #success is

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing? ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#asked #bottles #caught #deodorant #doing

It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#borrowed #box #comic #crime #daredevil

These memories descend out of nowhere, giving me pieces of who I was, but their significance is lost. I sigh and resume my walk, not knowing if this memory is important, or just more of the jumbled trivia of Jenna's life, like sock shopping. Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#life

It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#life