#lace

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#gave #had #him #his #huge

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#come #communities #dominate #eat #eliminated

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#best #cosmopolitan #degree #doing #good

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#always #awkward #been #comfortable #experiences

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way. ↗

— John Otway

#enthusiasm #long #long way #misplaced #take

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. ↗

— Robert Owen

#good #hearts #may #men #palaces

I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave. ↗

— Molly Parker

#been #coming #exactly #i #knowing

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#been #bit #ever #heal #hurt