#urns

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine. ↗

— Evan Davis

#being #being funny #believes #confidence #everyone

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ↗

— Demosthenes

#good #him #like #man #much

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#evil #genius #other #some #through

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. ↗

— Joan Didion

#generally #hadn #i #i am #out

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#matters #moral #moral issues #out #taste

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#been #big #couple #finished #great

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #like #loss #much #out

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. ↗

— Tom Waits

#george #george burns #i #loved #particularly

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#burns #evil #fire #lips #our