#lit

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#like #little #quit #tired #wrestling

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#grandmother #i #little #little things #me

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#about #being #cleans #everyone #interesting

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#birth #changes #i #immediately #personality

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mark #pride #rather #than #vanity

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural. ↗

— Picabo Street

#feels #fly #little #surprised #unnatural

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #became #before #complex #driven

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#always #apart #appearances #because #begin

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #beauty

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#individuality #lack #look #makes #uniform