#since

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#cannot #diplomats #fortunate #long #noses

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#chill #chill out #even #go #how

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#book #did #discovered #even #ever

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#did #different #dream #got #i

I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#big #challenged #four #having #i

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#crowds #element #feeling #get #getting

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to. ↗

— Jack Vance

#free #gave #haven #i #me

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. ↗

— Jack Vance

#i #just #like #seemed #sell

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#accidental #always #attempting #choices #context

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#became #biography #circle #closed #could