#any

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#difficult #eating #homegrown #pleasant #think

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#committed #enough #enter #haul #long

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#eight #employees #every #executive #federal

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway? ↗

— Tim Duncan

#different #enjoy #i #jokes #little

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#children #golf #hobbies #i #jobs

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#anybody #berkeley #could #fellow #few

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#anyone #book #books #ceremony #contains

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#choose #college #creative #development #different

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#approval #approve #aspire #church #family

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#anything #car #cooler #grew #had