#som

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#either #forgotten #reading #something #soon

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#disputing #generally #get #good #more

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ↗

— Miles Franklin

#own #people #right #right people #sign

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#article #because #finds #focus #fun

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#i #invented #maybe #something #sure

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#behind #dancing #front #get #gets

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#beginning #better #book #enjoy #enjoy reading

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#associations #because #channel #generations #had

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#australians #bunch #fantastic #like #me