#cho

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #because #director #ellis #excited

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#counters #eat #fire #lunch #out

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. ↗

— James Marsters

#always #back #because #chopin #cobain

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school. ↗

— James Marsters

#being #comfortable #geek #high #high school

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#found #i #interesting #law #law school

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#calls #course #difficult #down #mike

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you! ↗

— Chris Martin

#always #being #bigger #dream #hanging

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. ↗

— Allan Massie

#bad #because #between #blunders #choice