#list

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#adjust #ahead #anything #chill #country

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture. ↗

— Zac Posen

#cultured #i #kid #listen #rich

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#chip #create #figure #find #following

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gentleman #i #know #like #listed

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#gives #graduate #heads #high #high school

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#appearance #construction #created #during #external

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. ↗

— Richard Price

#chance #fly #how #i #i do

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#listen #lives #marvelous #music #operas