#our

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#best #despair #discoverers #domesticated #happily

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#been #boring #else #even #gets

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#came #courage #first #first time #harness

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bad #bad manners #because #better #condition

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#failures #old #successes #than #young

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us. ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#came #country #freedoms #future #future generations

I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#anyone #basically #believe #cook #fresh

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#few #few things #having #liberating #life

One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#because #best #changing #comedy #constantly

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#being funny #funny #life #nightmare #parties