Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.
The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.
Love hurts. " Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123