#al

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#basically #business #chaos #control #drama

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#fairy-tales #literacy #dreams

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#biggest #dig #expect #get #going

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#going #had #hang #i #life

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #decided #doing #environmental #find

I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room. (Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family) ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#dead-in-the-family #paranormal #sookie-stackhouse #family

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#change #going #i #just #moral

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#bob dylan #did #dylan #first #four

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#because #begin #domesticated #ended #eurasia

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dismantle #elections #enough #environmental #every