#irs

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. ↗

— Judy Collins

#first #found #gave #god #grateful

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. ↗

— Phil Collins

#ages #before #class #early #except

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' ↗

— Phil Collins

#first #gabriel #genesis #i #instrumentals

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. ↗

— Charles W. Colson

#almost #figure #first #impossible #next

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#bunch #call #first #i #identified

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#better #call #calls #difference #first

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#clearing #first #going #haven #head

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#destroy #first #gods #promising #whom

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#got #hold #honor #inheritance #know