#my

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#acting #always #consciously #defined #express

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#attending #birthday #concerts #conducting #dropping

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greek-mythology #mythology

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#blame #contract #few #go #i

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#america #economy #how #look #military

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#actually #break #degree #dimensions #during

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#attacks #base #continually #enemy #flight

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#become #better #develops #economy #expands

After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army. ↗

— James Meade

#after #aged #april #army #become