#oft

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#currents #highs #i #like #lows

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#age #america #basic #basic elements #best

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#campaign #care #experience #father #friends

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#more #needed #often #scene #self

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#call #certainty #hope #luck #often

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. ↗

— Nelson Boswell

#difference #greatness #how #individual #mediocrity

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#late #later #makes #manpower #project

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ↗