#be

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#his way #i #music #old #outlet

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. ↗

— John Cheever

#beauty #give #good #good prose #grief

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah. ↗

— Tina Fey

#best friend #friend #i #oprah #play

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#average person #been #could #explain #i

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #how #out #people #times

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#beautiful #eyes #hair #lovely #people

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' ↗

— Tina Fey

#ask #away #doing #dreamed #ending

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about. ↗

— Tina Fey

#adult #adult life #always #been #dating

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. ↗

— Tina Fey

#around #became #could #essentially #fifth