#ted

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#away #decided #diamonds #glen #gray

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#doubt #gardens #idea #imitated #islands

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#doing #done #fast #generally #interrupted

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#colored #done #education #elementary #higher

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#break #conglomerate #diversity #doing #field

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#find #get #happened #heartbreaking #i

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea. ↗

— Dan Fouts

#chosen #coaches #first #first of all #had

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#before #decision #driven #economic #grim