#now

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#better person #deserves #everybody #friend #had

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#being #clothes #going #grandmother #hang

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#i #kate #known #much #rather

When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of knowledge and education. To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups. Perhaps understanding will lead to a marvelous day when we take a last fleeting look at violence so harmful to so many. I sincerely believe that nothing will further the cause of peace more than the education of our young. I would like for readers to know that a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the cause of education. May all roads lead to peace. ↗

— Jean Sasson

#human-beings #knowledge #peace #religious #tolerance

The best artists are gone now. ↗

— Johnny Winter

#best #gone #now

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts. ↗

— Leon de Winter

#construct #film #i #nowadays #scripts

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#am #another #basic #basic idea #coming

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#daughter #decision #decision making #feel #hard

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#been #before #bring #carter #cash

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game. ↗

— Will Wright

#discovered #even #game #know #like