“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingStillsI CanStoriesLastsCoursesLinesHonestPossibilityFinishedRewritingFoolproof Author:Amy Hempel
“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.” KindI CanCountryCoursesCommunityInterestingGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceRadioCampusGospel Music Author:Lionel Richie
“Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!” I CanReasonRememberCoursesNextCryEmotionalNo ReasonPregnancyNext DayUps & Downs Author:Jodi Sweetin
“My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.” WorldWantI CanCoursesNationsExampleKingsWeaponsLifetimeArguingDrsAssessmentSmileyQuintessential Author:Tavis Smiley
“People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.” PeopleSaidI CanCoursesStreetsJuneUp To YouReferringCleaver Author:Barbara Billingsley
“He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.” FeelsI CanCoursesAgreeStaringInfatuation Author:Sophie Jordan
“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.” PeopleWantI CanCertainHumanityCoursesCelebrateCynicismMisanthropy Author:Todd Solondz
“I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.” KnowsTryingWellsI CanCoursesStuffLaughingNiceSentencesFeedbackYoutube Author:Tiesto
“I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.” ThinkingKnowsShouldI CanFilmCoursesBreakTakenHonestTelevisionRegretOffersMarriedShould HaveBeing MarriedI Am What I Am Author:Courtney Love
“I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.” NeedsI CanCoursesCan DoLaptops Author:Theophilus London
“Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.” ThinkingMenFeelsWellsI CanMatterRealityCoursesHonestHonestyDependsConsequenceConcernedMarkNotionObstaclesWell BeingRelativeLunaticHonest ManRationaleRelative Truth Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can't complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk.” PeopleYearsStillsI CanPainCoursesFatherLostLossComplainingPartnersClosestDesksMy Best FriendFull LifePain And Loss Author:Giovanna Cau
“I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.” IfsLooksLittlesI CanCoursesAsksSidesKnownRegretSuperiorsFancyVersesVolumePublishLikelihood Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.” PeopleIfsWantYearsI CanCoursesCan DoCompassionPaintingCommunicationLaughterHundredAnd LovePaintColourMaking People Happy Author:Norval Morrisseau
“When you start projecting on the future - "Oh my God, I gotta do this and I'm not there yet" - well, of course you're not there yet because you're here now. That time will come. I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn't feel as stressful.” FeelsTryingWellsI CanMatterMomentsJoyCoursesStressNo Matter WhatThat MomentStressful Author:Jennifer Beals