#cal

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#connects #interests #me #might #place

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#critical #easier #much #than

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#could #happen #i #mental #much

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#confidence #fight #game #much #nature

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#find #going #head #how #i

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#because #bring #competitive #environment #help

I had died and woken up in High School Musical ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #funny #high-school-musical #jamie-mcguire #beauty

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#beliefs #country #criticized #free #free country

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#already #audio #because #boom #digital