#out

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#balance #cone #economic #need #officers

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#clothes #finding #got #i #impossible

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#been #blessed #comes #cursed #either

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#lost #race #races #team #thing

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#argue #car #driving #her #i

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#became #divorced #drive #driver #elusive

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#character #child #comes #control #eat