#do

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#grandmother #had #high-tech #lock #nail

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of "thuggery" practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#both #both sides #done #ends #equal

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough ↗

— Carlos Luiz Zafon

#experience #wisdom #experience

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't. ↗

— Star Jones

#couple #doing #i #i think #my own

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me. ↗

— Tom Jones

#does #hear #i #i can #long

Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box! ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#funny

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #experience

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! ↗

— Lauren Willig

#funny-and-random #lauren-willig #spies #spy #funny

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. ↗

— Rich Little

#i #interested #kid #mannerisms #more