#ear

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years. ↗

— Frank Butler

#after #amazed #dumb #father #find

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#earth #eyes #like #men #our

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#been #clear #communicating #easy #fact

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#dearest #far #life #near #once

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #card #cent #class #class warfare

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them. ↗

— Judith Wright

#aware #feelings #habits #i #learned

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#excitement #excursion #full #greatest #illustrated

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. ↗

— Maria Callas

#dear #goddam #i #make #me

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. ↗

— Maria Callas

#like #marriage #myself #prepare #rehearsals