#ding

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#compounding #drinking #felony #fools #makes

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#expert #giving #heartbeats #i #podium

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#begets #creates #energy #life #oneself

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dividing #domain #eternity #hope #part

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#appear #appears #art #color #eloquence

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#civilization #constantly #country #economic #educational

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#been #brink #building #empty #him