#ever

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#big #big picture #compassion #connect #different

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. ↗

— Lewis Black

#candy #corn #ever #made

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat. ↗

— Lewis Black

#believe #chat #club #doing #eating

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#birthday #college #days #down #elvis

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#am #appear #ask #asked #been

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#back #damned #eighty #entire #ever

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #constantly #eclectic #exactly #feel

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#grew #i #little #musicologist #ohio

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else. ↗

— Chris Evans

#everybody #everybody else #go #grocery #grocery store