#sing

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#consumer #generally #initiate #rather #reinforce

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages. ↗

— Jon Secada

#both #community #done #grew #i

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger. ↗

— Chuck Todd

#any #astronomical #bigger #bubble #get

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #birth #bizarre #child #children

Betsy hadn't had sex, actual; sex-sex, full sex, in two hundred and fifty-three days. She decided on her thirty-seventh birthday that she wouldn't sleep with anyone unless it was in the context of a committed relationship which had some sort of future, and she was only gradually coming to the realization of what happens when a woman her age makes a decision like that: she never has sex again. ↗

— Sarah Dunn

#single-women #age

It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table. ↗

— Tanya Byrne

#life #mystery-suspense #sad #anger

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word. ↗

— Miriam Toews

#conversing #art

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#brisingr #humor #mockery #attitude