#ld

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#give #grades #had #i #interested

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time. ↗

— John Cusack

#aids #being #cold #cold war #dark

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#england #forefathers #hold #i #inherit

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#day #had #hands #i #least

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#any #battle #being #day #doing

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#world

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch. ↗

— DMX

#bad #beat #down #i #me

I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts. ↗

— Barbara Dale

#care #down #hold #home #i

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#dogs #half #i #i think #left