Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.
Joseph Sobran
Recitation: by Male by Female
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
Jim Crace
TrustStartRestYouWayTop
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
Jim Bunning
EnergyBodyWantTryEverythingWho
I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
Ana Beatriz Barros
BackGoWantTomatoBrazilCouch
Middle school was my most awkward stage. I switched schools after the sixth grade after having gone to the same school for six years with the same group of 40 kids. It was a shock. I reinvented myself. I experimented with different styles, different groups of friends, and different types of music and not knowing how to be cool.
Amber Stevens
MusicMyselfSchoolCoolNot Knowing
I think the arts are very important for children growing up.
Stephen Schwartz
ChildrenGrowing UpThinkGrowingUp
While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.
Mike McGavick
PeopleMeDecisionsGoWillForever
I used to have this superstition where I had to eat steak every night before I played, and my nutritionist told me don't do that. So after I lost that one, the other ones fell off pretty quickly.
Milos Raonic
MeNightLostSteakEatPretty
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
Michael Lewis
AmbitionBookYouWantSpecialWay
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
Lois McMaster Bujold
TimeWritingCareerPlaceVery
What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.
Jay-Z
WorkPeopleUnderstandUsLike
I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
Jason Clarke
DayPeopleThinkImportantStreets
We sell in Moda Operandi, which, if you don't know what it is, it's a beautiful luxury site that does pre-trunk shows for designer collections. We got them to change their algorithm online to go up to a size 24.
Christian Siriano
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