#elf

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ↗

— Lord Byron

#allow #any #before #bit #body

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ↗

— Lord Byron

#i #more #motive #myself #others

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. ↗

— Lord Byron

#hour #into #itself #life #long

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#glad #i #i can #myself #polished

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. ↗

— Dean Cain

#action #also #end #get #i

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#concern #films #going #his #i

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#being #character #get #getting #larger

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#blue #change #conventions #each #face

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#criticism #much #read #son #than

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#believe #campaign #candidate #done #down