(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity. From "Butterfly on F street
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead.
People will always tear you down and give you countless reasons to give up, but if you have faith in yourself, you can accomplish anything.
Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!
I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.
And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Used to keep my thinking in a box , I realized it was confining Broke it down decided I was more than the limits others placed on me~bns
