#ling

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#jungle #storytelling #writing #business

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#feelings #thoughts #business

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. ↗

— Mark Twain

#childhood #conscience #human-nature #humanity #sleep

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.  I am a storyteller.  Daydreaming is the best part of my job. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#daydreaming #richelle #richelle-goodrich #storytelling #writing

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#greatest #know #personal #shyness #stumbling

He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has." "It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling." He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#bumbling #courage #courage

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. ↗

— John Irving

#failing #failure #piggy-sneed #save #saving

The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations ↗

— Manuel De Landa

#advertisements #newspapers #selling-out #business

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#counsellor #counselor #humanity #joy #kindness

A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer. ↗

— Jeff Phillips

#brewing #business #creating #distilling #folktales