#ang

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#story #beauty

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#exchange #life #me #political #political life

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#light #minds #opinion #public #public opinion

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities? ↗

— Harold Ford

#attend #challenging #contributions #country #enrichment

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#daughter #had #i #made #music

When you're finished changing, you're finished. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#finished #you

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#done #great #great change #history #optimists

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. ↗

— Max Frisch

#change #does #just #unfolds #us

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#else #grown #grown man #living #make

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. ↗

— Judy Garland

#dies #how #illusion #lost #strange