#mo

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. ↗

— Enya

#been #celebrity #could #did #famous

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot! ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#careful #doing #driver #grandma #her

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#basically #believed #cook #cooking #else

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#believed #cooking #else #hard #mother

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. ↗

— Epictetus

#ever #his #more #much #remember

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#also #forgotten #gods #hopefully #i

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#give #had #however #i #introductory

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#am #done #grateful #i #i am