#ted

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#being #i #interested #one thing #really

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#constitution #else #exercising #fact #free

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #catching #consideration #decided #despite

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

#any #being #could #degree #every

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice. ↗

— Origen

#endowed #every #involved #justice #know

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing. ↗

— Suze Orman

#america #american #american dream #around #came

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. ↗

— Suze Orman

#card #create #credit #credit card #down

I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score. ↗

— Suze Orman

#always #balances #card #credit #credit card