#most

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#curse #emotions #hate #her #i

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning. ↗

— Richard Burton

#done #go #i #morning #most

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#always #come #filmmakers #find #i

New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#cutting edge #edge #especially #ever #exciting

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#being #comfortable #definitely #good #i

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#crap #get #good #gradually #i

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#controversy #dispute #exact #gains #most

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distrust #educating #important #magazines #matter

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#best #care #enjoy #enjoyed #god