#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

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

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assessments #awareness #capabilities #city #clear

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american public #battleground #key #minds #public

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#baptist #grew #i #strong #up

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#dreams #ground #lie #look #senses

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

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

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. ↗

— William Faulkner

#faith