#ect

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#i may not #may #perfect #trying

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#bar #bored #customers #denied #got

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#basically #bottom #british #coming #doing

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#external #heighten #imperfect #poetry #value

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#characterizes #good #intellectual #self-importance #things

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#awful #directions #handy #house #i

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#effective #extremely #formal #joys #life

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#causing #complete #conflicting #during #effect