#bee

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts. ↗

— Gene Shalit

#cast #could #films #given #got

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#been #culture #had #historic #i

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now. ↗

— Eric Shinseki

#been #cold #cold war #desert #designed

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #books #day #most #overnight

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better. ↗

— Bessie Smith

#better #i #poor #rich

I've always been a huge reggae fan. ↗

— Ville Valo

#been #fan #huge #i #reggae

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #describe #dominated #equations #exact

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong. ↗

— Ron White

#beer #could #diet #drink #else

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#anything #been #denied #development #discrimination