Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

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LegalYouPigGoOutSausage

I was broke into my forties.

Jen Sincero

FortiesBroke

People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.

Ann Richards

WorkPeopleToughLivingGotRaise

Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the street, I have to be a little bit picky.

Jean Smart

ChildrenMoneyJobStreetOutGoing

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Michael Bloomberg

LoveBelieve In YourselfYourselfYou

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Amos Lee

TimeSongFeelYouKnowKind

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

Sufe Bradshaw

FamilyAgeLightThinkPicnicPlay

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

Steve Winwood

LoveTruthLove IsPeopleMeDoing

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Roger Rosenblatt

TruthSadPlaceFocusedFirstMay

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Roz Chast

LoveCoffeeDetailSomeoneDrawing

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

Rumaan Alam

ControlBookYouHappenGoingAbout

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing.

Michelle Dean

PastPeopleWritingStoryHandsWay

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Miriam Toews

MomentRightBooksReadRight Moment

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