#miles

Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain burst into speech. He flung his words against the deaf door, "I'll make you take back that apology! I am all right, damn it! I'll make you see it. I'll stuff you so full of pride in me there'll be no room left for your precious guilt! I swear by my word as Vorkosigan. I swear it, Father," his voice fell to a whisper, "Grandfather. Somehow, I don't know how . . . ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#inspirational #miles #the-warrior-s-apperentice #vorkosigan #inspirational

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. ↗

— David Bailey

#every #every man #go #high #himself

His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne tinted with curacao and listened to Miles Davis, and when I asked the name of her perfume, she said it was L'Heure Bleue. She talked about 'perfect moments.' One such moment happened that afternoon; she'd been napping; I lay next to her, reading. She said, 'I'll always remember the sounds of the sea and of pages turning, and the smell of L'Heure Bleue. For me they signify love. ↗

— Susan Hubbard

#blues #champagne #curacao #l-heure-bleue #miles-davis

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#enjoy #even #guys #i #i love

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. ↗

— William Dampier

#august #clean #fathom #half #into

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#company #getting #going #hour #just

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#anything #behind #hollywood #huge #knives

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#consultant #fifty #guy #home #miles

But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them. ↗

— Bai Ling

#fans #feel #gift #give #hard