#hit

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#almost #difficult #hit #home #home run

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#break #chest #chin #comfortable #deep

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cut #dreams #familiar #his #indians

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#basement #bunch #equipment #great #kids

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! ↗

— Barbara Bush

#day #even #follow #footsteps #him

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! ↗

— Barbara Bush

#day #even #follow #footsteps #him

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#book #came #diaries #fact #george

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#guy #i #majority #old #party

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#dinner #family #fast #fast food #food

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home. ↗

— Laura Bush

#different #different things #get #home #house