Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
Recitation: by Male by Female
I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.
Jim Gray
I AmGrayBeatGuyGoingWho
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
Jidenna
ArtEngineeringSoundElectrical
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Jeremy Rifkin
HistoryPeopleOverYearsLastMake
We're not trying to shock people with our image.
Andy Biersack
PeopleTryingImageShockOur
I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.
Robert J. Bentley
TaxesLastPromiseWouldMade
I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
Jeff Buckley
LifeWritingWantAlwaysReflecting
I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with getting the right tone of voice.
Michael Angarano
ChangeVoiceWeekMy OwnListenOwn
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
Michael Cunningham
LanguageFindDownGoWayFirst
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
Mary Lou Williams
FamilyHomeSupportListeningSick
I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.
Michael Strahan
LoveParentsPeopleMeWorldTreat
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.
Michael Leunig
GoodWisdomExperienceCreativity
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell
TodayProgressChaosSeemComeVery
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