#up

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people. ↗

— John Oates

#crowds #groups #i #i wish #over

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. ↗

— John Oates

#hard #hard thing #music #music business #swimming

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#adult #bottom #chickens #child #did

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#i #others #sympathetic #toward #up

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #body #claim #enter #her

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#does #get #knocked #mean #out

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world. ↗

— Barack Obama

#barack obama #black #choice #free #free world

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#eat #end #famine #going #like

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#care #care costs #costs #could #deficit