#oar

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#eventually #i #keyboards #led #park

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#casualty #come #compliments #course #embarrassing

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#builds #crowds #day #dream #every

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#board #children #formula #i #know

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#cardboard #copy #cut #graduated #guitars

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#feet #four #hair #hoarse #neck

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#i #keyboard #online #room #staring

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy. ↗

— Matt Stone

#coarse #culture #just #kind #level

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

#books #chess #chore #come #detective