#ss

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#assume #because #been #context #easier

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#around #big #business #come #flames

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left? ↗

— Bobby Darin

#burns #business #care #dead #i

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#element #important #most #must #sell

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#church #closer #depressions #funerals #may

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#break #care #cared #concerned #economy

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#get #happy #i #idiot #into

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?" That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?" No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#lightning-thief #percy-jackson #today