#sealed

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#aggressively #came #deal #me #new

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#been #book #days #deal #i

Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel ↗

— Cecy Robson

#sealed-with-a-curse #the-weird-girls #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb. ↗

— Howard Carter

#dawned #doorway #evidence #gradually #guardian

After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day. ↗

— Julie Chen

#after #big #big brother #big surprise #brother

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ↗

— Alice Walker

#could #creative #flower #grandmothers #handed

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#both #doors #every #exist #farm

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#car #cattle #deportation #fast #fiery

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#fond #past #present #sealed #tibby