#ok

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#anxieties #because #comfortable #everybody #feel

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#father #ill #mary #me #mother

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. ↗

— Gail Devers

#after #always #away #games #i

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. ↗

— Gail Devers

#back #believe #five #gone #i

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#excuses #get #home #how #look

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#change #going #i #isolated #live

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. ↗

— Richard Whately

#all day #day #hour #looking #lose

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

What comes from the heart will go to the heart ↗

— Renae Lucas-Hall

#japan #love-story #romance #tokyo #love