#den

All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#evidence #poetry #teeth #death

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#desertion #fears #independence #toddler

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#chairs #common #common sense #exist #happens

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches. ↗

— David Brock

#builder #field #gaps #got #here

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #food #history #i #like

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#being #bird #free #human #human being

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part! ↗

— Kelly Brook

#because #dame #dench #ever #i

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer. ↗

— Chester Brown

#identifying #just #set #thought #wanted