#had

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. ↗

— David Bowie

#behind #dad #get #going #grow

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#batting #field #get #had #him

It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#ago #because #choir #got #had

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#had #how #i #learned #like

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality. ↗

— Earl Butz

#had #kind #loner #nixon #personality

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#came #compassion #fallow #fields #had

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had. ↗

— Eva Braun

#before #did #done #enclosed #end

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#brother #good #great #had #i

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache. ↗

— Curly Howard

#had #hair #i #mustache #waxed

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#being #great #having #i #kind