#ok

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#fold #more #nothing #old #ours

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#book #cause #having #high #high school

The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night. ↗

— Bob Dole

#dodgers #had #hitter #last #last night

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#enough #i #i am #joking #life

The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#business #exciting #found #fulfilled #full

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#look #marry #poverty

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#about #choke #eight #grabbed #i

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#before #begin #encounter #even #first