#left

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#always #comes #happy #i #left

You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home. ↗

— Peter Scott

#coming home #door #front #go #home

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#average #create #curriculum #district #five

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#age #cannibal #cannibalism #death #food

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. ↗

— Patrick White

#american #city #down #every #expecting

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#i #left #my own #own #paid

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#go #i #i tried #just #left

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#family #i #left #life #my life

...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#arbell #cale #god #hand #hate

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. ↗

— Jay Nichols

#awe #creativity #left-brain #mysticism #quantum-physics