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When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. ↗

— Les Paul

#fingers #first #five #go #got

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill. ↗

— Dan Benishek

#companies #company #cost #deduct #drill

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. ↗

— Paul Berg

#excitement #facts #forgotten #i #learned

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens. ↗

— Peter Berg

#films #get #i #like #see

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#20th century #century #disease #favorite #fear

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. ↗