#ok

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#conceived #executed #extent #fact #in fact

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #either #i #jokes #laugh

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane. ↗

— John Irving

#love #love

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#always #before #do you know #doing #done

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#change #i #i write #instant #kids

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#better #books #children #enter #feel

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me. ↗

— Drew Brees

#best #could #example #first #for example

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. ↗

— Drew Brees

#charter #charter schools #come #education #infrastructure