#pair

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes. ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#every man #fools #least #man #must

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#form #only #snobbery

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#bad #bad stuff #game #impair #never

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. ↗

— Lance Burton

#been #beginning #dove #doves #first

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#different #different things #each #i #instruments

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#badly #before #being #blue #blue eyes

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#indifference #into #mind #narcotic

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life. ↗

— Brian Clough

#go #had #haven #hell #holiday

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. ↗

— John Fowles

#despair #john-fowles #love #obsession #the-collector

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. ↗

— William Dunbar

#despair #emotional #full #ironic #mirth