#rating

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. ↗

— Richard Armour

#children #concentrating #demand #each #fail

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#attitude #concentrating #everything #fair #fastest

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept

I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

#clothing #i #just #know #nature

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. ↗

— Edith Schaeffer

#homemaking #beauty

Your like Martha Stewart on crack,” my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies. ↗

— Debby Bull

#decorating #love

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #integrate #integrating

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating. ↗

— Andy Stern

#deteriorating #economic #general #i #particularly

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse. ↗

— Howard Stern

#bowl #build #every #every time #go