#ck

My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#humor #humor

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#clock #novels #stories #art

Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#character #first #first of all #follow #hopefully

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#football #getting #hell #i #kicked

There are always possibilities. ↗

— Jack B. Sowards

#science-fiction #spock #inspirational

A person who gossips & talks too much may not suffer from Bipolar Disorder but may suffer from Verbal Diarrhea.:) ↗

— Timothy Pina

#jack #inspirational

BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators. ↗

— Julie Saffrin

#blessbacks #inspirational #motivational #power-of-gratitude #self-help

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy. ↗

— Josephine Yun

#music #rock #intelligence

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe. ↗

— Libba Bray

#crazy #imagination #quick-plot-summary #death

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#jack #ma #thoughts-on-life #life