#wil

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#away #because #big #big thing #close

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#both #burns #candle #ends #foes

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. ↗

— Milarepa

#delay #forever #go #meditation #practice

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#bad #before #book #down #good

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#certainly #compound #everywhere #fallen #fiend

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart. ↗

— Johnny Miller

#exposes #heart #how #match #much

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#approach #comes #doing #i #idea

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#commit #common #decisions #disregarding #engage

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#doing #feel #getting #great #i

A brick is something solid, stable, and yet edgy. In other words, it’s everything a politician isn’t.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny