#shed

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#clothes #community #complain #cooked #crippled

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. ↗

— Walt Disney

#code #diminished #exchange #feelings #freely

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#done #drafts #end #finished #i

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical. ↗

— William E. Geist

#joseph #mary #me #much #number

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. ↗

— William Kunstler

#asia #because #blood #could #decided

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished. ↗

— David Tudor

#always #composition #felt #finished #i

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#been #before #circuit #come #doing

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#arrived #bother #busy #down #flourished

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#always #anywhere #been #everyone #go