#where

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#get #get married #i #kids #married

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

#american life #consists #driving #hell #home

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. ↗

— Midge Ure

#built #chords #concentrated #counter #everywhere

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. ↗

— Paul Valery

#almost #always #been #certain #everyone

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#am #give #hope #i #i am

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#american culture #believe #bet #centers #culture

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#care #doth #earth #either #ever

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know? ↗

— Alan Vega

#cash #dressing #dressing room #great #guys

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#bring #conviction #enemy #find #fire