#itch

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#created #in the past #men #mental #now

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch. ↗

— James Taylor

#basically #brazil #catch #cultures #extremely

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#because #did #especially #even #i

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#alfred #attended #august #birthday #birthday party

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#back #big #game #gap #get

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one! ↗

— Beau Bridges

#baker #fabulous #go #hawaii #keep

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen. ↗

— Terry Venables

#dressing room #get #heat #kitchen #out

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at. ↗

— Robert Caro

#drafts #everybody #first #four #go