#ellen

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ellen-hopkins #fallout #innocence #love #love

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#mediocrity #excellence

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#elementary #sherlock-holmes #simple #excellence

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#excellence

jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#excellence

Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth. ↗

— James Patterson

#excellence

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#excellence

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#anyhow #artist #excellence #i #i always

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#gone #house #land #learning #most