#tween

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#birth #death #life #like #short

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. ↗

— Dick Morris

#areas #between #distinction #does #eras

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #conflict #convinced #country #event

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#carry #dream #hope #i #i write

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#difference #freedom #legal #riders #significant

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#disparity #earnings #greater #poor #real

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#around #been #between #ceo #change

Congressmen spend between five and seven hours a day on the phone, begging for money. ↗

— Eric Massa

#between #congressmen #day #five #hours