#ground

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#background #crimes #experience #financial #found

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#i #living #mother #playground #pretend

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors. ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#best #competent #creative #fearless #incredibly

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#background #himself #his #however #man

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#background #because #economics #get #journalism

This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#city #energy #every #feeling #grounds

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#displaying #ever #grounds #judicious #men

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. ↗

— Mo Yan

#continue #describing #emotions #feet #ground

I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#dying #healing #love #sacred-ground #death

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#in-a-burying-ground #life #soul #death