#am

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#family #found #i #looked #out

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#came #chords #crazy #day #friend

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#effects #games #get #i #incredible

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#challenge #compel #doctrine #every #every man

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#among #any #beyond #boards #choking

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

#endurance #every #overcome

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#around #attracts #best #big #big change

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#constant #curry #divide #efforts #favor

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#body #diamond #like #luster #must