#tin

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#consumer #could #depend #diesel #disposal

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#chinese #cliched #dearth #depict #found

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#fighting #going #humanities #i #i think

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. ↗

— Bess Truman

#alarmed #am #any #day #every

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly! ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#procrastination

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#feather #happen #interesting #interesting thing #mattress

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#die #going #going home #home #i

You learn a lot, writing fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#learn #lot #writing #you

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#anything #because #feel #first #funny

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#actor #craft #geeky #i #like