#um

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them? ↗

— Amanda Lear

#hate #i #rumours #spread #them

...or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #humor #death

Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom #humor #washington #freedom

Nothing conceals a woman's age like musky perfume. It makes her smell as ancient as Persia. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #perfume #women #age

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. ↗

— David Leavitt

#perfume #smells

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#going #hope #i #into #may

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. ↗

— Vin Scully

#illumination #like #much #statistics #support

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#certain #die #everything #get #happens

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#child #development #duty #ever #expansion