#som

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #days #different #different things #done

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. ↗

— Tyne Daly

#afterwards #battle #comes #critic #goes

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#business #buy #families #home #just

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#even #good #highs #i #keel

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#arrive #expect #happiness #never #plan

Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not. ↗

— Katie Couric

#absolutely #absolutely not #advance #agree #another

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. ↗

— Ice Cube

#getting #his #just #off #rap

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. ↗

— Chuck D.

#again #around #because #big #bragging

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#beginning #just #people #pretty #puts