#y

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! ↗

— Evanescence

#evanescence #fairies

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#simplicity #funny

How is it possible to have a civil war? ↗

— George Carlin

#funny #humor #terminology #war #funny

Nothing else matters now that you love me.' - suicide note ↗

— Bauvard

#love #suicide #funny

Fraud is the daughter of greed. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#fraud #greed #lovejoy #greed

If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He spread his arms wide. "If you were writing songs with it, you'd be holed up in your room in the middle of the night, scribbling them in a notebook and feeling self-important. You'd think you were getting it out, but really you'd be keeping it inside and quiet. You'd take what upset you and turn it into art, and now it would fester, because you think other people ought to share your outrage at what happened to you. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#energy #feeling #giving-and-receiving #outrage #sam

I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#arachne #heroes-of-olympus #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #pulling-strings #spiders

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #excellence

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying. ↗

— Holly Black

#lying #excellence

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ↗

— James A. Michener

#good #good writer #i #very #writer