#rain

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! ↗

— Mariah Carey

#end of the tunnel #freight #hopefully #light #train

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#brain #charts #count #critics #half

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #almost #anomaly #artists #because

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#became #found #happened #how #hung

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#circuit #drills #everything #football #gym

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#beauty #because #brains #cultivate #doors

There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting. ↗

— Michael Vick

#big #calls #camp #dissertation #even

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#being #brought #i #mom #terrain

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams