#make

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#did #earned #father #find #hard

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#border #death #fire #free #itself

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#creates #items #little #lots #magic

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it. ↗

— Rip Torn

#best #best way #enough #girl #herself

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#back #different #figure #getting #go

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#beginning #best #better #every #follow

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#makes #nothing #our #secrets #us

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. ↗

— Robert Towne

#bring #context #credible #difficult #else

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #good #good book #life #life story