#bout

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#along #always #author #aware #deeper

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#although #came #did #enable #fame

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child. ↗

— Edie Falco

#biological #child #children #having #i

His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#about #air #been #charge #get

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#composed #mistakes #overcoming #perfect #race

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#confidence #energy #enthusiasm #get #i

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! ↗

— Don Johnson

#alcohol #business #divorces #else #everything

I want to create situations that give people something to think about. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#create #give #i #people #situations

Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#around #aspects #geared #got #i

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#carelessness #falsehood #intentionally #lying #more