#occasion

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#found #i #instant #made #millions

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cape #deal #drawers #get #go

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean. ↗

— Alton Brown

#battles #cause #dirty #dish #fast

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#himself #man #most #occasionally #over

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #most #nothing #occasionally

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless. ↗

— Larry David

#good #homeless #i #living #me

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #continue #deny

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i