#thor

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#i #make #much #reader #remember

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#because #becomes #book #french #goes

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#authorized #conflicts #constitution #law #nothing

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#common #consensus #earth #expression #feminine

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. ↗

— Michael Baden

#authority #been #comes #death #get

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#authority #been #best #given #help

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#boots #defer #does #follow #i

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #before #bow #i #imposed

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished