#ever

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#judgement #never #organisation #substitute

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#go #guide #moderation #never #your

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. ↗

— Ron Davies

#case #expulsion #first #first of all #i

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. ↗

— Josh Billings

#bear #everyone #ice #more #see

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. ↗

— Erasmus Darwin

#fool #his #life #man #never

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation