#cal

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#calamity #great #happened #hour #old

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#called #could #end #fear #fight

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#acoustic guitar #best #best way #creating #different

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#failure #represents #results #success #which

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! ↗

— Peter Hook

#come #find #finding #good #had

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#critical #existence #most #philosophy #standpoint

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#governor #i #nominee #political #side

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#apex #back #bar #bartender #boom

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#philosophical #truism #death

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative