“If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night” IfsLooksProblemNightGuyChoicesSawsPossibilityLifetimeSweatersKnittingDumped Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
“Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.” MadeChoicesHopeDifferencesVisionSawsBrilliantSculptureMarblePlumberQuarryNoblemenGuidos Author:Rob Kall
“Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.” MatterCertainChoicesFatherIndividualBeliefNationsLibertySawsAtheismOneselfPositive AtheismPenaltiesAssociatesFoundingCharterFreedom Of ReligionDenominationsIndividual Choice Author:Norman Cousins
“Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.” ChoicesThreeSawsFansWorstSpiders Author:Chris Pine
“To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.” PeopleIfsWorldWayPersonsMadeDifferentChoicesAsksNumbersSawsAliveProfoundIf I CouldWhat IfDifferent Peoples Author:Richard Bach
“If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.” IfsWantNeedsWritingMadeTwoStoriesChoicesReadingNextWalksFictionSawsFeetThousandPicksContemporaryCraftsDullShort StoryImperfectConcreteNext TimeFloatingAbstractionFiction WritersTheoristsSyntaxScalpels Author:John McNally
“It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.” ChoicesActorsSawsWonderfulFitCriticsCloudsNineAwardsAcademySupporting ActorsCloud Nine Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.” PeopleMenWayFeelsTryingArtRealChoicesSawsLandConflictAwfulHopefullyReal Questions Author:Wendell Pierce