#tart

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living. ↗

— Guy Clark

#building #couple #grandkids #guitars #i

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#blues #gone #guys #honorable #i

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#around #assistant #blind #bloke #calls

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bridget #bridget jones #caribbean #cruises #earnest

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#another #falls #life #looking #part

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke. ↗

— Guy Clark

#broke #change #condition #die #either

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#i #out #people #politics #ruling

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#found #give #glad #hope #i

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#beginning #book #forward #i #imagination