#poke

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. ↗

— Anita Diament

#bookstores #church #churches #college #come

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#before #begin #encounter #even #first

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#books #brought #closer #discuss #family

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. ↗

— Black Elk

#flames #i #leap #looked #many

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. ↗

— Enya

#areas #because #gaelic #ireland #long

The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#challenge #develop #really #spokespeople

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#children #father #i #jane #kids

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #approval #children #continue #expect

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#above #always #back #bipartisanship #burning