#ring

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#away #better #better things #bring #creative

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

#american life #consists #driving #hell #home

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. ↗

— Steve Vai

#believed #bring #cultivated #deals #difficult

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#exhibit #feel #good #good manners #make

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#camera #control #during #films #i

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#get #hope #i #i hope that #just

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#certain #certain ways #certainly #considering #damaging

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#day #denies #earth #great #great day

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years. ↗

— Alan Vega

#after #always #anyway #couple #down