#ten

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#come #conversation #especially #funny #great

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#awfulness #bother #gotten #hate #i

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human #human race #miss #noah #often

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #everything #go #had #i

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fluid #ink #merely #prejudice #very

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#company #feel #felt #get #gotten

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#difficulties #discouragements #doubts #failures #false

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! ↗

— Roland Barthes

#clearly #deal #ending #entire #great

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#did #does #his #miss #noah