#bit

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

#best way #birds #could #day #gave

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. ↗

— John James Audubon

#aware #better #birds #english #habits

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter. ↗

— Bille August

#best #best intentions #bits #certain #complete

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bear #bitter #fortune #future #good

They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#bit #defense #department #had #hits

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#beautifully #bit #breath #come #end

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#bite #i #me #microphones #people

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#building #go #high #high level #i

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#action #because #bit #comedy #dance

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#choose #habit #life #make #most