#ill

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful. ↗

— Randy West

#applause #audience #audience members #enjoyment #evidence

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. ↗

— Billy Graham

#give #give me #heart #i #me

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'! ↗

— Randy West

#experience #first #first appearance #forget #how

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. ↗

— Rebecca West

#challenge #filling #journalism #meet #space

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. ↗

— Rebecca West

#die #every #live #unending #us

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ↗

— Rebecca West

#illusion #monologues #such #thing

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#effects #global #go #goes #personal

I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#anything #available #basement #come #doing

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#absolute truth #every #great #hack #makes