#match

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #does #done #horror #just

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#always #basic #composer #decide #difficult

Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally. ↗

— Daniela Hantuchova

#best #court #far #felt #finally

What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks. Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.' What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?' She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything. ↗

— Erynn Mangum

#lauren-holbrook #miss-match #rematch #change

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#frank-delaney #friend #friendliness #friendship #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#death #hans-christian-andersen #match-girl #death

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#being #different #inclination #just #kind

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension. ↗

— Peter Watts

#intelligence #pattern-matching #equality

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. ↗

— Ally Condie

#life #matched #life

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#love #lust #matches #love