#ground

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#counseling #first #ground #offense #second

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha! ↗

— Ellie Williams

#common-ground #elliewilliams #humourous-situations #life #pressures

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#aphrodite-s-playground #beauty #cyprus #fes #fez

You’re insane,” I told him, and stood up to dress. He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, “Insane for you, my love. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#grounded #love #rk-lilley #love

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #hunting-ground #public-speaking #humor

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard. ↗

— Bo Bice

#hard #just #like #people #practice

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#book #chapters #character #figuring #initial