#times

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. ↗

— Richard Petty

#guys #other #people #personalities #respect

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comes #dialogue #dictation #down #easiest

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult? ↗

— Jay-Z

#hilarious #i #insult #like #lot

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#age #approach #artists #crumb #draw

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times. ↗

— Marat Safin

#answer #going #i #know #many

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#losing #row #times #two #winning

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#friends #get #help #i #just

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence. ↗

— David Kay

#independence #known #probably #regrettable #streak

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#know #really #shows #sometimes #strange

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#book #country #down #experiment #here