#bled

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. ↗

— Robert Moog

#enabled #engineer #i #i do #make

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#best #come #conditions #eating #eggs

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

#always #divinity #enthusiasm #i #like

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#each #even #explains #fear #flames

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#i #just #know #live #living

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon. ↗

— Li Na

#french #french open #just #just because #mean

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me. ↗

— Li Na

#chinese #chinese people #forget #i #maybe

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley. ↗

— Gary Neville

#along #announcement #another #child #crown

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. ↗

— John Newcombe

#had #i #love #love affair #started