#ill

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#bus #down #had #montgomery #parks

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#else #need #people #saying #something

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#bad #better #definition #escape #good

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. ↗

— John Berryman

#artist #business #extremely #him #kill

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me. ↗

— George Best

#everyone #i #ill #me #see

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#anything #because #blue #direct #face

Will the reader turn the page? ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#reader #turn #will

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone. ↗

— Paul Celan

#hard #heart #hid #philosopher #still

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#catcher #drops #got #his #horse