#weren

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#damn #doubts #fool #god #i

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#back #family #going #grew #i

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

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak. ↗

— Robin Trower

#being #bit #experience #good #great

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

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. ↗

— Steve Swallow

#because #devise #found #i #impacted

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 still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#back #bit #bits #changing #earrings