#made

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. ↗

— Bert Campaneris

#leagues #made #major #major leagues #never

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#electric #good #great #him #how

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side. ↗

— Christo

#because #chances #decision #deliberately #difficult

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #chemical #discovery #fact #individual

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#baldness #foolish #grief #hair #less

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#big #everyone #life #little #little things

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

#christmas #holiday #man-made #much #pretty

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence. ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#could #discovery #ever #every #existence

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#arts #became #being #couple #dabbled