#ones

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#blessing #faith #friends #hear #kept

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audience member #bad #either #given #good

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. ↗

— Carl Barks

#because #better #book #cover #covers

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#people #replaced #should #thinking #would

...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #sacred #safe #safety #stones

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. ↗

— John Barton

#aside #cannot #even #failed #give

People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#across #comments #country #day #every

But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did. ↗

— James Belushi

#been #california #court #criminals #did

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#down #i #me #notes #roar

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly