#ripping

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#being #brain #daily #dripping #end

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#around #baseball #end #good #gripping

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#big #bread #butter #chip #come

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#arts #child #children #curriculum #drilling

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#hard-hitting #mystery-suspense #teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse #thought-provoking #thought-provoking

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#deeper #equip #gripping #himself #knowing

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick. ↗

— Harry Reid

#broke #call #companies #ensure #get

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#counter #down #dripping #eat #face

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines ↗

— Diablo Cody

#stripping #humor