#glad

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did. ↗

— David Crane

#buddies #chair #did #extra #fall

BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky with raging tigers. Waving their arms about to incite the masses The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena. Making their separate entries they K N E E L over the still-warm corpses Of the young. Their withered lips they pose Upon the fresh flowing wounds And, to prolong their lives – so they believe, Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood. Fresh blood from the sun Flowing into filthy veins As into sewage pipes, And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#bloodsport #gladiators #oppression #tyranny #vampire

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. ↗

— Ossie Davis

#being #black #cup #find #gladness

I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval. ↗

— Paula Deen

#cookie #dentist #does #drilling #face

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#animal #arena #arenas #center #cheering

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#demands #did #fast-paced #flying #glad

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#day #end #end of the day #glad #i

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it. ↗

— George III

#chancellor #deliver #did #glad #i

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. ↗

— Geronimo

#bad #began #eat #everywhere #feeling