#p

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. I love the feeling of Peter's story, someone may say. It had something... a sense of I don't know... there's a loving kind of you know... I can't exactly describe it.... It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class. ↗

— Stephen King

#experience

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. ↗

— Billy Graham

#death #face #forward #god #great

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people. ↗

— Billy Graham

#analyzer #everybody #everything #got #i

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#cities #classes #good #i #know

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap. ↗

— Bob Graham

#almost #been #below #close #comes

I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered. ↗

— Heather Graham

#across #be happy #being #cities #fly

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff. ↗

— Heather Graham

#charismatic #good #lady #lead #leading

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#another #another way #doing #mistake #simply

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. ↗

— Michael Gruber

#good #experience

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83) ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#self-control #experience