#yin

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#dying #garden #humor #irony #sarcasm

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#coming #had #honest #i #realized

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#apply #because #bringing #details #different

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#artists #beat #because #block #creative

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #another #avoided #conflict #conflicting

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down. ↗

— Megan Fox

#i #take #trying

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ↗

— John W. Foster

#hell #laugh #loudest #pride #raises

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#before #clarinet #ear #greatest #i

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#dynamics #fact #getting #his #left