#chi

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ↗

— Josh Billings

#achieve #any #good #good judgment #honestly

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#been #before #chance #children #country

Lilith returned to her cooking. She didn't let herself think about anything but preparing the food, one ingredient at a time, a pinch of this into a bowl of that, a vial of this into a jug of that, and so it went, while the sweat ran off her in rivulets and her hair and dress clung to her, and the kitchen hummed with the droning of flies. ↗

— Georgina Anne Taylor

#sorrow-s-child #food

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happy #happy childhood #life #many #promising

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#america #artists #ask #come #could

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#express #i #needed #probably #share

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. ↗

— Jim Davis

#children #comic #comic strip #english #garfield

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. ↗

— Jack Vance

#every #fact #get #in fact #job

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#consumer #economy #much #still

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea ↗

— Florence Welch

#florence-welch #music #musicians #funny