#mm

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#anybody #because #escape #face #felt

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#because #bizarre #calls #definitely #everyone

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem. ↗

— Beck

#grammys #i #little #poem #thing

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years. ↗

— Beck

#commercials #electric #hear #i #like

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out. ↗

— Beck

#came #commit #creating #hard #i

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#able #between #communication #intercept #man

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#bed #character #commitment #discipline #enabled

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#around #chords #convincing #energy #forget