#eric

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cave #fire #great #great american #into

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. ↗

— Andy Summers

#avoid #fusion #generic #i #jazz

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#back #banking #century #crises #depression

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#american league #ever #i #league #president

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #behind #boyhood #camps

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#america #hotels #i #management #north

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#apple #arena #clearly #dominating #innovation

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand. ↗

— David Talbot

#american #american media #apparatus #bought #costly

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#consider #considered #doing #filmmaker #gonna

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#answered #authority #higher #historically