I’m not fit company for man or beast.
BILLY STRAYHORN
BILLY STRAYHORN
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Billy StrayhornBilly Strayhorn My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MitskiMitski We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PlotinusPlotinus Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PlotinusPlotinus But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
Werner HeisenbergWerner Heisenberg The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
Werner HeisenbergWerner Heisenberg We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it.
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