#ran

Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#little-girl #notes #family

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#cary #cary grant #case #check #crazy

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#appeals #believing #came #dress #future

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. ↗

— Norah Jones

#college #coordinate #could #ever #gig

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#come #cuts #fact #going #gone

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#ago #being #between #brando #difference

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#called #enemy #hath #ignorance

I do not separate France from Europe. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#france #i #i do #separate

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. ↗