#mira

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#age #honorably #laurels #me #people

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#accomplish #gentle #good-natured #kind #look

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#earlier #expressed #individual #many #miracles

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#better #born #course #death #lovely

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?' ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#any #because #birthday #cable #country

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#another day #believe #day #happy #i

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#admiration #ahead #criticism #get #get married