#shed

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#default #force #liberty #never #recovered

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#experiment #hydrogen #large #might #new

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question. ↗

— William Banting

#becomes #beyond #charm #comfort #creates

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#another #barrier #break #breaking #ends

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#black #bush #compatriots #countrymen #hearts

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#awhile #been #couple #getting #i

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#asleep #finished #half #head #i