#weren

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#like #made #sons #weren #you

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural. ↗

— Picabo Street

#feels #fly #little #surprised #unnatural

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#crash #define #flight #food #get

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#always #authors #french #german #great

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.' ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#always #big #big movie #business #dad

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#bar #finished #give #going #got

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ↗

— Joey Adams

#any #apart #exercise #fact #far

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. ↗

— Wendy Carlos

#dig #hadn #i #into #lifetime

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better. ↗

— Phil Collins

#cope #crossing #day #difference #i