#sin

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#children #competitive #doors #globalized #increasingly

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#does #falling #falling in love #find #here

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#been #composing #creative #creative process #elusive

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#contradictory #her #him #important #label

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#campus #children #colleges #daughters #dorm

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew. ↗

— John Foster

#crew #good #had #i #interpreter

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#before #clarinet #ear #greatest #i

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional