#bout

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#growing #growing up #necessarily #quantify #small

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anger #channels #comes #conservatives #frankly

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. ↗

— Karl Rove

#comfortable #family #i #me #write

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that. ↗

— John Rowland

#anybody #bipartisan #education #excited #i

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance. ↗

— John Rowland

#absolutely #aspect #chance #city #get

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#actually #adult #ask #bingo #citizen

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#day #few #hard #i #just

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#death #does #everyone #i #i think