#lit

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#loud #loud noise #noise #other #responsibility

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life. ↗

— Don Johnson

#decided #going #i #kid #life

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #others #pleaser #responsibilities #seriously

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#anyway #because #disabilities #disabled #dress

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility. ↗

— Don Johnson

#been #day #forward #i #i can

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#chat #correspondence #fans #great #i

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive. ↗

— Don Johnson

#i #i think #little #little girls #more

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence