#aught

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. ↗

— Anita Desai

#best #could #doing #ever #first

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#could #done #example #failure #failures

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. ↗

— Florence Henderson

#age #computer #daughter #freaks #i

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#birth #daughter #given #having #i

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#book #children #daughter #fathers #four

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#god #laughter #sadness #sweet

No art is possible without a dance with death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#comedy #laughter #art

A good artist should laugh often! ↗

— François Place

#artist #laugh #laughter #art