#former

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#people #performers #put #shows #want

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#former #likely #materials #nuclear #seeking

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised. ↗

— William Lilly

#beheaded #effected #either #formerly #had

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#politics #science #design

I loved Transformers when I was a kid. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#kid #loved #transformers

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #know #musician #performer #strong

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#choice #cultural #feel #five #main

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#first #first time #former #i #lover

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#audience #concerned #how #look #much

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#among #commonly #dangerous #even #exceptions