#pens

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#great #happens #just #lap #plan

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. ↗

— James Dickey

#crazy #creative #indispensable #intelligent #magazine

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#always #capital #committee #compensation #economy

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ↗

— Walt Disney

#happens #kick #may #realize #teeth

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#expect #generally #happens #least #occurs

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#caught #crazy #depends #gonna #got

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#cut #expenses #face #first #government