#ok

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#anybody #book #first #first kiss #great

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#look #new #new york #other #progressive

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#belly #guy #i #lake #looking

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#american public #beyond #bring #feet #get

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#espn #fill #hours #impossible #like

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

#burning #ever #lamps #wisdom

Actually, the books were never a planned career path. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#books #career #career path #never #path

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#certainly #fame #good #home #made