#ants

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. ↗

— Bono

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#advent #aspirations #beginning #come #creators

Every parent wants to see their kids excel. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#excel #kids #parent #see #their

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#book #conscious #first #go #guess

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#art #matter #out #painter #points

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. ↗

— Howard Koch

#live #nation #neighbors #peace #rattling

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#best #contestants #dream #good #happens

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#book #centers #comes #cops #eavesdrop

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#about #ethical #giants #infants #killing

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.' ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#gotta #hair #i #kidding #know