#own

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. ↗

— Billy Sherwood

#drum #groove #head #hear #i

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#extra #extra money #financial #financial assistance #four

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#count #day #determined #germany #help

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#always #down-to-earth #i #simple #simple way

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#cause #down #effect #end #eyes

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. ↗

— Nina Simone

#aside #bought #dream #feet #gown

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#enough #game #going #long #next

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#always #definitely #different #duration #huge

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#children #cold #desert #desolate #down