#sai

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.' ↗

— Richard Dawson

#anyone #asked #children #color #could

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#dismissed #easily #i #me #saint

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#liberal #mugged #reality #said #who

What, if as said, man is a bubble. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#man #said

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #follow #go #how #i

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#firm #house #i #local #outside

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #idea #often #problem #said

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#adjust #always #change #destination #direction

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence