#ripping

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. ↗

— David Brin

#comes #convey #credible #duty #feel

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american audience #audience #dramatically #given

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

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. ↗

— Method Man

#documentary #going #got #i #pick

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

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it. ↗

— Matt Stone

#does #else #everyone #fun #only

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ↗

— Lucretius

#dripping #hollows #out #stone

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought... ↗

— Janette Rallison

#basketball #fall #falling #funny #gymastics

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