#som

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#beliefs #both #cannot #cases #contact

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. ↗

— James Lind

#day #different #different times #drank #each

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch. ↗

— Hal Linden

#figured #first #first time #i #move

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#considered #done #father #i #never

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

#building #come #get #i #i think

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#ephemeral #how #matter #nothing #novel

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years. ↗

— June Lockhart

#always #because #did #especially #funny

I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me. ↗

— Gary Lockwood

#bought #finally #get #going #gun