#m

My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#again #also #been #brother #family

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#differently #how #most #noses #others

Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged exercise in Shelley’s personal terrors. The subtitle of the work was 'Prometheus Unbound,' and Laura wondered if Shelley herself was not Prometheus in the form of the wandering monster, who desperately sought love and acceptance but was ultimately driven to face an icy landscape that seemed almost fantastical—the way our own subconscious could be, white and frozen-slippery. ↗

— L.L. Barkat

#mary-shelley #writers #writing #dreams

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#airwaves #chance #decent #decent people #good

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#any #arms #desk #driving #even

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bigger #hollywood #i #i always #life

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#cannot #foreheads #i #i do #move

Nutrition makes me puke. ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#me #nutrition #puke