#pins

Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#songs #business

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable. ↗

— Lisa Samson

#merchant-ivory #movies #spinster #love

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#arm #counted #each #fallen #full

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest. ↗

— Billy Martin

#been #best #i #i am #i may not

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#down #drops #her #pins #star

It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#middle-age #sharp-tongue #spinster #age

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#women #beauty

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #me #nobody #pins #tells

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#been #country #good #head #i