#ned

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#grass #man #out #turned #woman

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#enjoy #excellence #how #joy #know

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#another #away #band #decision #engineering

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#confident #i #instincts #learned #more

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#being #breaking #breaking up #by the time #christine

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#basically #because #currently #great #half

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaign #campaign contributions #concerned #contributions #corruption

We are the people our parents warned us about. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#our #parents #people #us #warned

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ↗

— John le Carre

#cubes #having #into #like #movie