#cho

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. ↗

— Connie Willis

#human-experience #experience

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#could #dollars #eat #got #high

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#belief #christian #christian religion #christmas #conditioning

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#i #kid #me #morn #put

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the "good life" we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#already #choose #exists #gift #good

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#end #i #jeans #months #pair

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #deal #far #get #know

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#bounds #choice #citizens #comes #dare