#pens

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#books #draw #family #family member #hero

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#happens #reason #say #something

Always wear expensive shoes. People notice. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#expensive #notice #people #shoes #wear

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#book #box #deep #door #each

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens. ↗

— Daryl Hall

#bunch #entourage #funny #happens #put

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#cause #crack #for the people #handful #happens

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#caused #compensation #disease #had #illinois

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up. ↗

— James Harden

#get #gets #going #guys #i

The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work. ↗

— Keith Haring

#control #developing #does #dripping #evolution

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#democracy #fight #freedom #grow #happens