#tuck

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #brand #ever #i #keep

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#blocked #home #hours #into #matter

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#desires #issue #old #our #people

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#confusing #costs #did #does #help

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#done #drum #end #go #going

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#favorites #feeling #get #good #good feeling

Can we go somewhere?" I ask. "Let's go somewhere off in the woods and I'll show you." He hesitates, of course. What if I'm an alien invader trying to lure him to a secluded place so I can suck his brains out? Or a vampire, ravenous for his blood? "I won't hurt you." Be not afraid. His eyes flash with anger like I've come right out and called him a chicken. "Okay." His jaw tightens. "But I drive." "Of course. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#tucker-avery #anger

...with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#tuck-everlasting #beauty

I blame Mother Nature two-faced bitch and Father Time bloody bastard .Yep those misogynistic killjoys have cut off my pocket money and left me grounded.With those two authoritarian heavyweights ganging up what chance does a woman have I aks you ↗

— Kathy Lette

#nature #nip #nip-and-tucp #nip-tuck #tuck