#cs

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#before #doing #done #ever #guitar

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#because #become #else #face #focused

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#almost #cleanse #day #deal #dream

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#aim #cured #either #equally #fire

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#nuclear #politics #protecting #rises #terrorism

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#american politics #anything #aware #because #clinton

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#nothing #praise #standard #those #up

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#being #changed #fans #first #going

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#asking #critics #dogs #feels #like