The Girl with the Genesis Tattoo @snidegrrl - Tumblr Blog

random-brushstrokes

Leonid Pasternak (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

caressthosecheekbones

oh leonid, we're really in it now

wintersmitth

Leonid, you really understand it.

alexaloraetheris

Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document

elodieunderglass

Leonid what should I do about the emails

letitrainathousandflames

Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again

magiccarpetman

Leonid Pasternak is the best! My favorite of his is The Night Before The Exam (1895).

carlpalmer

grirnoires

do you judge god by his creatures when they are dead?

j-tillow

gulistan-blog

㋡🥀

dianux-27

These two are so in love! 😌❤️

bridoesotherjunk

oupacademic

Misquotation: “Backwards and in high heels”

The comment that the dancer Ginger Rogers did everything that her partner Fred Astaire did, but ‘backwards and in high heels’ and therefore with extra difficulty, is often attributed to Rogers herself. Rogers, however, denied it, although she recounted an anecdote which gave force to the expression. In her autobiography My Story (1991), she said that she generally practised in low heels, and changed to higher heels when filming. When choreographing 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’, Fred Astaire forgot that she would be wearing high heels. As a result, trying to achieve 'a backwards three-step turn-jump up the stairs, she nearly lost her balance. She believed, though, that the actual line was the coinage of the cartoonist Bob Thaves.

Years after the near-fall she described, a friend sent her a cartoon by Bob Thaves, in his 'Frank and Ernest’ series, from a Los Angeles newspaper. In the cartoon (which certainly popularized if it did not originate the saying), Frank and Ernest are shown gazing at a billboard announcing a Fred Astaire film festival. The caption reads: 'Sure he was great, but dont forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did…backwards and in high heels.’

From the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. For other previous common misquotations, take a look at our Misquotation of the Week feature.

Image credit: Ginger Rogers (stage door), by Studio Publicity Still, via Wikimedia Commons.

pardalote

Moon. Fabric and thread. Stitched from a photo my brother took.

poetry-protest-pornography

@rhysiana look at this!!!

rydenxo

fresno nightcrawlers but one is wearing JNCO jeans and the other is wearing tripp pants

thequibblingking13

This post conjures such a specific image in my mind that i just had to draw it. I love u fresno nightcrawlers

hellyesjohnsteinbeck

Commonly misquoted:

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2005) by Ronald Wright, p. 124; though this has since been cited as a direct quote by some, the remark may simply be a paraphrase, as no quotation marks appear around the statement and earlier publication of this phrasing have not been located.

This is likely an incorrect quote from America & Americans, 1966:

“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property. "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.” (source: Wikiquote)