#tar

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. ↗

— W. H. Davies

#full #life #poor #stand #stare

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. ↗

— Angela Davis

#around #became #because #country #demand

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will. ↗

— Brad Bird

#assume #because #brain #direction #every

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. ↗

— Artur Davis

#begin #blinded #columns #denver #end

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. ↗

— Jim Davis

#children #comic #comic strip #english #garfield

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ahead #getting #getting started #secret #started

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#got #into #left #mother #nothing

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ↗

— Bette Davis

#good #good actors #i #keep #life

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. ↗

— Evan Davis

#american #another #bad #black #christmas