#roan

A spa?" "Yeah, Avalon Spa, you know the place near the mall?" "Oh, right. What do you do there?" Again, the nervous glance at the floor, and the small flush of color rising up his neck. "I'm a masseur. Which I know sounds phony as hell, but I'm licensed and everything. Also, my clients are women- the only men at Avalon are the ones on staff. And while I've got nothing against women at all- I'd have no friends in high school if it weren't for women- I find them as sexually attractive as roadkill possum." Roan had to swallow back a laugh. "Don't tell them that." "Oh, God no! I'd never get any tips then. ↗

— Andrea Speed

#roan #men

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ↗

— Robert Browning

#bent #carve #ever #groaning #how

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#creativity #doorway #effort #give #groaning

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show. ↗

— Dave Attell

#down #groans #i #laughing #mind

The best prayers have often more groans than words. ↗

— John Buchan

#groans #more #often #prayers #than

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#groans #hundred #laugh #market #worth

You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know? ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#groaning #know #much #only #then

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#chief #ear #ever #go #great

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#am #blood #cry #desolation #fired

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#blood #cry #desolation #fired #groans