#com

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#around #business #cleveland #come #dinner

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#could #degree #i #music #say

I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job. ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#commercial #could #decided #divorce #get

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. ↗

— Todd Akin

#becomes #climate #contains #control #defines

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care. ↗

— Todd Akin

#compassion #efficiency #federal #federal government #government

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#did #latter #never #oblique #prefer

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #long

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ↗

— Edward Albee

#bad #define #fact #good #good writer

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#community #creating #devote #get #gives