#thou

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#authority #figure #general #had #i

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #child #childish #did #i

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. ↗

— Rita Dove

#amazing #another #happened #i #least

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. ↗

— Rita Dove

#been #every #go #had #i

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#cardboard #cardboard box #i #novel #recycled

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #although #belonged #collectively #convey

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#could #drop #having #heard #infer

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#also #asking #because #else #going

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. ↗

— Patrick Gordon

#good #gracious #grant #his #i

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#child #chord #cut #seem #sometimes