Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.
Jesmyn Ward
WorkBeginningCreativeI AmBook
Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.
Jesse James Garrett
PeopleLookingEndHardEggsUp
We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.
Jessica St. Clair
WorldYouTelevisionMatterWatching
I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.
Jeremy Corbyn
TimeLongLong TimeOverOperations
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
John Osborne
GodAloneSimpleUniverseSunlight
When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
Merle Haggard
NatureWinterCarHouseWallSummer
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
Shirley Eaton
ArtCreativeSchoolPaintingPerson
Generally, I snack on lots of fresh fruit and raw nuts, such as almonds.
Mary Helen Bowers
FruitSnackNutsFreshRawLots
My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.
Jared Cohen
DayJobIdeasEvery DayPossible
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.
Joseph Brodsky
ImpactStrategyWayLineOrderPoem
I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
Brendan O'Carroll
WomanThinkKnowWantOldSecret
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
Bob Seger
LiveYouNowSpecialNow And Then
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