#ling

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. ↗

— Holly Near

#behind #force #forward #great #leaping

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. ↗

— Nicholas II

#business #i #i am #know #nothing

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#call #chick #could #feeling #hag

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#everyone #faces #first #nurtures #smiling

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #join #man #willing

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#entire #information #old #old people #our

Ferrari gives you a special feeling. ↗