#tin

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#listen #npr #tend #writing

So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#balance #best #bring #car #day

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#possibility #beauty

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cross #dinner #formula #get #interesting

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. ↗

— Laura Bush

#get #governors #into #know #lot

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ↗

— George Byron

#creeps #ever #happens #like #out

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #comes #dancer #decorating #discipline

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#because #best #clear #creative #fleeting

Art and science have their meeting point in method. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#meeting #method #point #science #their