#carson

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#carson #johnny #johnny carson #know #owned

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#carson #first #five #had #him

See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days...I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have. ↗

— Jim Lynch

#rachel-carson #seeing #life

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ↗

— Anne Carson

#desire #eros-the-bittersweet #hope #love #romance

Sublime natures are seldom clean! ↗

— Longinus

#decreation #philosophy #nature

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next. ↗

— Ben Carson

#failure #gifted-hands #hurdles #inspirational #obstacles