#sayin

...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process. ↗

— Elaine St. James

#simple-life #simple-living #life

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#back #better #everyone #french #here

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney. ↗

— David Letterman

#cheney #dick cheney #footage #him #keep

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.' ↗

— Tom Leykis

#being #being happy #benefit #happy #life

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#anybody #anything #ask #been #come

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#always #breakfast #carefully #dinner #eat

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #being #carried #grounds #i

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#am #because #comforted #enough #going