#mo

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#enjoy #form #forms #i #into

White Americans have a short memory. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#short #short memory #white

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #dedicated #guess #i #i am

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#crisis #darkest #hell #maintain #moral

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#good #good and bad #more #perfect #susceptible

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#accept #believe #care #cause #death

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ↗

— Gary Allan

#jealous #moon #stars #still #you

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. ↗

— Steve Allen

#get #helps #humor #over #social

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you. ↗

— Gary Allan

#candy #cry #emotion #feel #hear