#ect

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#best #different #discard #every #figure

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#continued #few #good #i #indicated

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#broken #expectations #hopes #improved #men

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. ↗

— Yvonne Craig

#direct #growing #growing up #had #i

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#being #believes #conception #had #i

Whatever good things we build end up building us. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#build #building #end #good #good things

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#career #early #i #intellectuals #make

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#client #competitors #consolidate #every #exit

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#elected #end #first #get #house