#things

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#become #better #crazy #even #figure

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#among #been #before #books #care

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here. ↗

— Al Unser

#breeds #changed #competition #competitiveness #gone

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#discipline #i #i love #love #myself

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #i quit #meant #quit #said

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#always #beyond #going #got #home

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#cakes #celebrate #enjoy #food #great

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. ↗

— James Oliver

#blessed #men #merely #most #talk

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#against #bones #comes #depends #go

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#begins #duty #feelings #i #i love