#ld

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#best #both #english #i #really

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#could #fun #halen #i #lasted

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#english #english language #federalist #form #government

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#dying #minutes #out #over #people

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#bottom #car #could #down #drove

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#fire #old-timer #remember #remember when #setting

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#depended #gotten #judgment #made #more

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#country #immediately #name #our #over

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#deal #european #financial #hand #i