#somebody

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? ↗

— Alice Walker

#i #impact #know #life #mean

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#am #back #bring #friend #get

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#could #forget #funny #get #go

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#been #bills #concerned #created #electric

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#families #family #great #how #i

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#actually #death #disappeared #dying #emotion

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins. ↗

— David Cross

#cover #each #first #get #just