#commence

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#feel #once #really #see #then

I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harvard-commencement-speech #death

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #life

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#college

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? ↗

— Stephen King

#commencement #intellect #steven-king #college

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#although #born #commence #country #first

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#attained #begin #circumstance #commence #earliest

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. ↗

— Julia Gardiner Tyler

#am #commenced #entertaining #i #intend