#up

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#become #brain #career #frees #get

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#motion #only #stay #up #while

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters. ↗

— Marc Morial

#basically #because #city #close #done

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#decisions #force #his #historian #less

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#brothers #environment #friends #grew #guys

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#come #contemplating #day #go #happen

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#advantage #appearance #appears #because #chances

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it! ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#different #family #getting #getting married #goal

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#because #i #know #lot #lyrics