#vin

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#ascertain #begin #direction #here #iran

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#essence #giving #pleasure

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life-and-living #art

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. ↗

— John le Carre

#book #completing #having #having a baby #like

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#chance #diving #down #even #go

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#doing #else #everything #evolving #extremely

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ↗

— Emily Carr

#come #coming #even #go #going

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk. ↗

— David Carradine

#act #anybody #body needs #chinese #convince