#cord

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. ↗

— Titus Livius

#actions #before #desirable #exemplary #eyes

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling. ↗

— Jay London

#asked #cent #i #kicked #me

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records! ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#belonged #both #club #columbia #had

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#big #everything #generating #good #listened

I can't stand too long of a record. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#long #record #stand #too

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#albums #i #jazz #recorded #started