#lan

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#asked #been #business #did #done

I speak two languages, Body and English. ↗

— Mae West

#english #i #languages #speak #two

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. ↗

— John Donne

#book #chapter #dies #into #language

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#before #bottom #bottom line #budget #challenges

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see. ↗

— Alan Vega

#i #sculptures #see #showing #some

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#better #big #big guys #guys #i

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings. ↗

— John C. Parkin

#chance #new-chance #potential #beauty