#am

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#doing #how #i #look #thats

Though I may be efficient at the family table, I linger at the table for two. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#family

..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, “There. My village,” and that’s how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #sense-of-place #family

Are you sure you don’t have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family? ↗

— Vivi Anna

#erotica #vivi-anna #family

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today. ↗

— Arthur Kroker

#black #black hole #body #disappearing #edge

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

My family's dead. I'm going to see them now, Stark. It's okay. I want this. ↗

— Yinsen

#family

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#ashamed #box #box office #course #difficult

It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#cares #family #much #others #part

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#been #bills #came #college #fellows