#then

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#before #discard #good #i #i can

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#began #discard #emerge #enslaved #falsely

If it's boring, then it's tiring. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#then #tiring

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#away #baton #beard #beat #beatles

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#bed #dogs #height #lets #love

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#back #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment #benefits

I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#come #could #do the right thing #down #flavor

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. ↗

— Hans Frank

#adviser #college #german #hitler #i

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #find #hard #i #into

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #books #down #external #fun