#thing

The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#also #challenge #decathlon #dislike #frustration

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. ↗

— John Eaton

#being #experience #failed #how #i

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#books #brought #closer #discuss #family

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#been #i #others #over #process

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#badly #down #embarrass #get #hot

A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#any #big #club #did #exists

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bough #dead #drop #ever #felt

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #good #good thing #history

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#acceptance #age #always #around #attached