#ding

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#bride #does #getting #her #marriage

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#her #man #point #stops #wedding

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#either #exceeding #getting #heart #limit

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works. ↗

— John Rowland

#else #everything #grade #reading #then

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#enlarge #give #good #good writing #i

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cabin #holding #i #long #long time

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#ending #liking #other #share #some

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#album #another #anything #back #before

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#because #beginning #biggest #come #finding