#here

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#know #most #mystery #really #where

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#kept #memory #mind #monuments #preserved

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cautious #equally #even #keeping #making

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. ↗

— Edward Furlong

#detroit #kind #like #movie #random

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another. ↗

— Ina Garten

#also #another #connect #course #encourages

I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#done #dressing #dressing room #go #guys

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#came #cop #department #dishonest #got