#blige

If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it. ↗

— Neko Case

#art #blige #could #die #elliott

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#catastrophe #concern #current #current events #deal

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ↗

— Voltaire

#cannot #oblige #speak #we cannot

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. ↗

— Len Wein

#another #chain #editor #expect #follow

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#helps #little #much #oblige #often

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#business #gentle #i #i am #kindly

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#attention #down #everything #less #more

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#been #conquer #found #had #latin