#d

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

#big #friends #our #pass #sieve

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

They taught me different was wrong. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#me #taught #wrong

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. ↗

— Connie Francis

#because #definitely #encouraged #had #hated

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' ↗

— Genie Francis

#atlantic #be kind #because #being #britney

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it. ↗

— Genie Francis

#childhood #developmental #domain #goes #had

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too. ↗

— Ron Francis

#along #both #career #coaches #down

The world loves to be deceived. ↗

— Sebastian Franck

#loves #world

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. ↗

— James Franco

#doing #figure #film #hard #out

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#bat #before #crack #hears #long