#born

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. ↗

— Alistair Maclean

#enjoy #i #writer #writing

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#earn #i #living #might #troublemaker

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gift #loss #music #out #really

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#actual #back #ball #born #changed

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

#did #england #ignorance #new #new england

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#i #i was born #oklahoma

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#born #dead #drops #eyes #i

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#deal #hawking #i #i was born #like

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture