#ear

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. ↗

— George Saunders

#beautifully #because #bit #down #feel

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. ↗

— George Saunders

#big #chicago #cranky #dear #fan

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #atomic energy #cloud #coming #dangerous

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#better #enjoyable #hear #i #live

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #conflict #control #droughts #earthquakes

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american troops #growing #insurgency #into #iraqi

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#create #doing #feed #hear #i

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#column #criticizing #had #i #i think

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#came #certainly #chicago #cleared #come

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#doing #experience #happens #i #learning