#mel

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#cricket #dad #day #drove #especially

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#friendship #like #pearl #poetry #precious

Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him. Future. Hope. And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night. ↗

— Holly Cupala

#love #rain #beauty

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#emotional #head #melody #rhythm #state

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing. ↗

— Jewel

#coming #diego #hear #homeless #i

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America. ↗

— Jewel

#end #homelessness #must #together #work

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#better #better place #concerned #country #excited

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#appears #beyond #comment #detail #difficult

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great