#ed

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette. ↗

— Ed Markey

#changes #child #cigarette #construction #cost

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ↗

— Bob Marley

#closed #door #know #open #you

That's about the 1,000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up. ↗

— Sterling Marlin

#asked #back #back up #been #build

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#am #believe #determined #die #direction

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#collusion #corruption #crime #feeding #funds

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

Behind every exquisite thing that exists, there is something tragic.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #mess #muck #tragedy #beauty

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. ↗

— Marc Maron

#comes #fly #ground #here #i

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#astounding #books #craft #craftsmanship #faulkner

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #book #exposed #figure #find