#l

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#awake #away #back #continuously #far

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#fool #going #make #probably #publish

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#been #big #blockbuster #documentaries #films

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bible #dedicated #exhort #i #life

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. ↗

— Barry Diller

#like #more #our #over #proud

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#i #need #other #running #scare

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry. ↗

— Barry Diller

#changing #companies #envision #established #highly

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#anger #bell #business #cry #dealing

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #commemorate #cooking #harbor #kids

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#body talks #god #insist #nobody #talks