#ang

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#anything #bands #basically #bobby #folk

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. ↗

— Andre Gide

#change #evil #never #struggle #work

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are? ↗

— Emily Giffin

#been #change #does #i #intrigued

What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#each #everything #fighting #footballers #got

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#course #does #energy #energy sources #everything

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#balance #change #class #contributing #determination