#ow

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

#award #because #been #called #ceremony

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #collectively #constitute #divine #flows

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#back #before #believing #bombing #british

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#children #condition #dead #formerly #happiness

I'm drowning in papers. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#i #papers

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means. ↗

— Duke Kahanamoku

#know #means #never #seen #snow

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#bastards #decent #drown #feeling #good

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#democrats #done #every #happy #heavy

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season. ↗

— George Takei

#after #canceled #fans #know #revived

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#each #her #other #own #underestimates