#lent

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#came #had #i #kid #kind

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#the-silent-blade #beauty

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#excellent #funny #i #people #player

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

#become #common #fate #indolent #prey

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic. ↗

— Hal David

#art #cyclical #i #optimistic #talent

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#draw #gave #god #him #i

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#cry #hasn #human #human being #laughs

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#i #people #person #violent