#win

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#i #just #like #look #me

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. ↗

— John Engler

#coalitions #decisions #hard #making #tough

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#afraid #am #any #been #college

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church. ↗

— Enya

#church #growing #growing up #i #mum

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. ↗

— Chris Evans

#growing #growing up #look #me #now

I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#baby #been #down #ended #even

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. ↗

— Bil Keane

#catholic #drawing #events #found #got

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children