Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
Recitation: by Male by Female
A sketch is just a mini movie.
Jim Rash
SketchJustMiniMovie
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
Jess Walter
CoffeeGraceWritingStoryShort
But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
Jennifer Egan
CharacterEyesMeWorldThinkLogic
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
Andrew Bird
MyselfThinkPlayViolinWellWho
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
John Strachan
DeathPresentFallSorrowHimHoly
You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.
Tom Rath
LifeJobThinkBetterSomeoneYou
I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
Roscoe Bartlett
WorkEnergyWillOilForeverLast
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
Mary Wesley
PeopleShortDieStopBoringBecome
Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.
Mary Schapiro
ConfidenceBalanceOpportunitiesLose
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Juice Newton
SayingFeelAttentionCountryRadio
Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.
Denis Leary
WolvesOffIrelandHelped
Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.
Dorothea Dix
ExerciseRulesNumbersAuthorityMay
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