“I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.” ChildrenUsePayWatchesMy FamilyPerformancesDramaticSavvy Author:Margot Robbie
“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.” WayWritingMadeUseMemoriesFictionHappenedNeededMy FamilyMeaningfulNovelistsMatureWriting Fiction Author:Ayelet Waldman
“During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.” IfsYearsMayHas BeensStillsUseLastsResponsibilityTakenLandMy FamilyRanVisibleScarExhaustedStarvingHealedMillionaireRestorationPastures Author:Wendell Berry
“I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.” WayWritingTryingReasonUseLove IsFiguresAspectToolsMy FamilyMy WayGloriousConfusingAlways TryingAbout Family Author:Sarah Kay
“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.” FirstsLittlesUseEyeAbleMotherBitsVoiceChallengesActingTaughtLittle BitAspectMy FamilyGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Keith Coogan
“If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!” IfsWritingYearsBookHardUseWould BeMaterialsMy FamilyManageLabourDelightfulAnnoyance Book:The letters of Lewis Carroll Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll
“I am extremely thankful for my family. I am very thankful for what God is allowing me to do artistically. What a dream come true for me! That I get the opportunity every single day to use my talent for His glory.” UseDreamOpportunityTalentGloryMy FamilyAllowingDreams Come TrueVery Thankful Author:Mary Engelbreit
“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayUseLanguageCommonGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyIndiaTypicalBombayFooling Around Author:Salman Rushdie
“I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.” PeopleIfsUseWould BeMy FamilyPainfulDivorceTrialsHealLegacy Author:Kristin Armstrong
“Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.” WellsPersonsHelpingUseProcessTeachInformationBuildingCollegeKeysPeriodsMy FamilyDataWell RoundedGoing To College Author:Yolanda Adams
“I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantUseInspirationFatherGamesInfluenceInspireBandMy FamilyJust BeingUncles Author:Nelly
“I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.” UseMemoriesInternetMy FamilyConnectionsMachinesFlashJewelsSurfingMacsUbuntuLaptopsLinuxInternet Connection Author:Donald Knuth
“If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family.” IfsWantUseMightSocialCompanyShareMy FriendsMy FamilySocial NetworkGraphs Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.” ThinkingWorldI CanUseGoalTermWealthCollegeProudMy FamilyLegacyProvidingBe ProudGrandchildrenDominationMy GrandchildrenWorld Domination Author:Nicki Minaj
“I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.” ChildrenUseChurchGenerationsMy FamilyPracticalsMy ChildrenTrendsFourthMythbusters Author:Adam Savage
“I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.” WorldKindStoriesUseInterestMy FamilyInstinctObservationComicDevicesLife StoryPertinent Author:Bill Bryson
“A brother with small earnings may ask,''Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.'' My reply is, ''Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them.” IfsGivingShouldMayEndsReasonHelpingUseMightAsksBrotherComfortMy FamilySickIncreaseShould IEarning Author:George Muller
“Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.” BookUsePainRememberUsedLanguageWishPeriodsMy FamilyIncludingPainfulRefuseChosenAfrican AmericanBansBanned Books Book:The Land Source: The Land
“To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.” WantMeanArtUseDifferencesWealthMoneyBusinessSupportAudienceFourWifeResearchMy FamilyDecidedFoundationAppreciationMy WifeMedicalEnjoyedMaking A DifferenceLos AngelesBroadsInitiativeBusiness SuccessUrbanInnovativeCivicsPublic EducationMedical ResearchArt Appreciation Author:Eli Broad
“I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.” MayMadeUseAmericaQualityMy FamilyBeerExcellentArticlesMade In America Author:George Washington