#mel

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#alone #cannot #centers #community #crisis

It's not the scar and it's abso-freakin-lutely not you." I dropped my hand. "Yeah, right." I sagged against him a little. For being as little as he is, Frankie's really solid. "It's never me." I felt his sigh against my shoulder blades. ↗

— Melissa Jensen

#the-fine-art-of-truth-or-dare #art

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #discovery #ever #following #fractional

There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#friends #i #out #thankful #today

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. ↗

— David Leavitt

#perfume #smells

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#i #listen #melody #out #radio

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#enjoy #every #every day #extremely #get

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#ask #did #doubt #give #handling