#tent

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#attention #back #because #birthdays #certain

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale. ↗

— Honor Blackman

#catherine #female #gale #paid #television

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#bar #family #family members #front #get

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#america #brain #cancer #cell #cell research

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#anything #attention #caught #everybody #intense

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americana #called #culture #declaration #first

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fixed #good #intent #plans #traveler

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it. ↗

— Jack Dee

#anonymity #banging #concept #damaging #especially

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. ↗

— Jack Dee

#badly #become #comedians #failed #i