“Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.” IfsHomeKidsTogetherRememberWorkRoomsTeacherReadySettingSettingsBeerEggsBreakfastInvitesMilkFamily LifeLiving RoomOrderlyHouseworkMuffinsPlowing Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.” WayWritingWholeStoriesHouseGrowsRoomsGrowing UpGenerationsReadyFatsDozenMailGetting OldRefrigeratorsCranky Author:Orson Scott Card
“I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsHardBigsHoursChallengesRoomsDealsStageMissingReadyHard WorkPerspectiveGoes OnLuckyJokesConnectionsCarefulBe CarefulNow And ThenBig DealHere And ThereLucky Person Author:Brian Regan
“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.” GivingMindBodyLightEnergyProcessRoomsKnowingReadyExpressionEgoNegativeBasesAbsolutesFoundationGenuineBreathingConcentrationAllowingFloodDroppingPositive Energy Author:Marion Woodman
“When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.” HumansHas BeensTwoSometimesTodayUnderstandingBlackHuman BeingsWhiteRoomsAwarenessColorReadyRacismEncounters Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.” IfsShouldMeanSelfHousePleasureRoomsToo MuchSacrificeReadyHabitDemandTablesDrawingAcceptedMoodBoredAtmosphereCustomsConformHospitalityModeratesInvitationsVisitorsSelf SacrificeAttendanceSociability Author:Elisabeth Marbury
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.” FeelsFirstsBodyLastsHouseForceBlackRoomsHalfFeetDyingLove YouYouthReadyTasteFilledYour BodyTraditionalSmokeOddFiftySquaresDucksAwkwardBedroomTeenageNaiveHoodUpstairsCapesChimneysSmallnessSquatFirsts And LastsCape CodRipeness Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.” IfsShouldLittlesHappensNamesSpeakRoomsEducationTakenImpossibleChildhoodMissingCryTearsTaughtReadyNeglectOverlooked Author:Sarah Fielding
“During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].” WritingYearsLittlesIdeasCoursesRoomsNumbersDoorsStreetsReadyMonthsTerribleWalkingCome UpChecksSweatShavingNapkins Author:Woody Allen
“All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.” IfsLooksRoomsReadyOughtWelcomeFriendlyInterior DesignDecorating Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“What's been most helpful to me is realizing that those times when all the heads in the room turn and look at me as if I was crazy, reinforce my own leadership capability. Because I've been in a number of those settings where I've been right. And I've been right often enough that now when it happens I don't automatically think, "Oh, my, what's wrong with me?" or "Ohhh, I must not be ready for this role," or "They know so much more than I do."” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksEnoughHappensTurnsRealizingMy OwnRoomsNumbersRolesCrazyReadySettingSettingsHelpfulCapabilityLook At Me Author:Mitchell Baker
“A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.” SeemsActionNationsWaitingWalksRoomsPathTakenDoorsReadyBrokenTomorrowLiftsThickFogBreezeMistRight Path Author:George H. W. Bush