#lice

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big ↗

— Lisa Genova

#still-alice #inspirational

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#ezra #forever #inspirational #my-blood-approves #vampires

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#like #move #observe #police #scared

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#life #malice #spite #life

Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along. ↗

— Julie E. Czerneda

#slice-of-life #life

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#truth #turn-of-the-century-texas #life