#nth

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#bar #five #hired #i #later

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite. ↗

— Teresa Odendahl

#clinton #hegemony #non-profit #philanthropy #power-elite

They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go. ↗

— Roger Milla

#collective #game #go #good #individual

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#am #assemblies #concerning #good #great

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

#by the time #electronic #experience #got #had

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#book #ever #finish #i #months

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm? ↗

— Vince Neil

#am #chances #charm #few #five

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#best #cosmopolitan #degree #doing #good

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#career #clay #court #four #great