#ect

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. ↗

— Richard Petty

#even #getting #now #out #politically

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me. ↗

— Tom Petty

#bad #came #electric #electric guitar #first

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#father #full #i #jackson #kinds

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. ↗

— Phaedrus

#believed #detected #even #ever #ever after

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. ↗

— Liz Phair

#am #back #break #conform #early

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collection #fitting #game #hang #hopes

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. ↗

— Liz Phair

#did #good #me #never #perfection

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#final #final test #gentleman #him #his

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#encouraging #forgets #given #never #private