#rain

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brains #clothes #hearts #liking #make

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules? ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #guy #i #kid #schedules

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#cleaned #drained #get #going #house

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#athlete #being #body #how #know

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#couple #inspiration #into #kurt #past

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#lifelong #many #olympics #took #training

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. ↗

— Martin Yan

#anything #back #better #contribute #drain

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. ↗

— Martin Yan

#being famous #constraint #famous #free #hindrance