#early

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#nearly-headless-nick #simile #insult

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. ↗

— Jeff Healey

#both #century #different #different styles #early

No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They’d rather die. It’s so uncool to be early. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#parties #stereotypes #sweet-valley #uncool #love

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough. ↗

— John Abizaid

#clearly #duty #enormous #enough #fact

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#acoustic #against #early #everyone #feedback

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#early #new #new york #place #pretty

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ↗

— Dave Barry

#contributing #factor #falling #gravity #involving

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#early #ever #folk #folk music #got