#time

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#around #asked #demanded #high #i

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point! ↗

— John Bruton

#financial services #horizon #industry #inventiveness #long

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#anytime #anywhere #background #coming #could

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. ↗

— Fannie Farmer

#better #certainly #diet #disease #distant

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#million #more #people #rest #seems

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#american #american history #aretha #aretha franklin #every

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#classes #composed #first #freemen #independent

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#dancer #dancers #just #lives #mind