#urns

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#burns #court #dark #fragrant #green

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#army #barely #before #begins #deployment

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. ↗

— Jim Dale

#back #bus #captive #comedy #coming

George Burns was the father I never had. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#father #george #george burns #had #i

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#father #me #mr #omit #symbol

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left? ↗

— Bobby Darin

#burns #business #care #dead #i

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine. ↗