#occasion

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basis #become #being #book #comes

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be. ↗

— Brian Clough

#big #big head #call #get #head

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. ↗

— Francis Crick

#across #appear #code #come #conclusion

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#alaska #blessings #make #occasion #our

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television. ↗

— Robert Englund

#back #basically #big #doing #get

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho. ↗

— John Hawkes

#angeles #austin #branded #cast #i

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ↗

— John Pearson

#both #considered #expressed #many #more

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions. ↗

— J. J. Johnson

#good #i #jazz #look #many