#hea

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#away #back #could #from time to time #give

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #create #hear #i #knack

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#grail #heart #holy #holy grail #i

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#cheap #like #memories #restaurant #soup

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#heart #life #more #perishable #resides

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#businesswoman #different #hear #i #i am