#lace

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#child #frank #less #life #losing

I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#country #cow #criticism #found #had

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#formidable #grace #mixture #only #place

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#avoided #dark #imagination #meet #memory

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#books #deliberately #emotionally #i #i think

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ↗

— John Donne

#jail #own #palace #thine #thy

I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#go #going #i #i can #left

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#aside #audience #because #blog #buying