#ang

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#crushing #dad #entirely #ever #happened

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#annoying #attention #demanding #doing #else

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#around #changed #did #free #i

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

#be happy #contemporary #happy #individual #must

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#ever #i #nobody #other #people

I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#got #haven #i #may #number

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#i #know #operates #proposals #security

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#above #angry #big #challenge #diminish

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#change #crisis #greater #lesser #people

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#age #being #change #ever #many