#led

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#around #banner #classroom #discovered #earliest

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#air #bad #careers #enough #filled

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. ↗

— Elihu Root

#effective #fittest #inevitably #law #led

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while. ↗

— Stephen Root

#get #hired #i #once #thrilled

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#called #could #experienced #inspiration #memory

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#found #i #just #ways #won

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#brain #bright #called #cultivate #cultivated

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #must

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ↗

— Albert Einstein

#doing #knew #research #were #would

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#chat #contact #e-mail #electronic #face-to-face