#thing

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

#counts #everywhere #fortune #friendships #honors

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand. ↗

— Brad Carson

#i #know #letting #republicans #stand

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#consumers #i #real #real artist #real thing

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard. ↗

— Robert Plant

#been #between #cornerstone #events #everything

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me. ↗

— Billy Carter

#i tried #live #made #me #press

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ↗

— Angela Carter

#book #bring #experience #history #like

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#attention #command #common #common things #common way

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#anything #common #common things #dinner #fill

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#al #al gore #almost #doing #even