#met

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #kong #leslie #other #people

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out. ↗

— Iris Dement

#find #i #long #long time #me

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new. ↗

— Democritus

#ever #godlike #new #something #think

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#enjoyment #gone #instantly #life #possibility

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery! ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#cosmetic #i #surgery

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. ↗

— Joan Didion

#arrangement #because #early #eleven #hemingway

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. ↗

— Don Drysdale

#meant #now #played #screw #series

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! ↗

— John Dillinger

#farmers #firemen #i #just #like

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#certain #damn #place #putting #something

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. ↗