#occasion

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#man #occasion #only

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it. ↗

— Brian Cox

#anymore #bad #because #become #diminishing

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other. ↗

— George Crumb

#interesting #music #occasionally #other #really

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#began #behind #classical #classical music #ear

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#better #clinton #heads #hillary #his

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anything #attention #democrats #disagree #forfeit

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#like #occasionally #princesses #see #up

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next! ↗

— Peter Garrett

#arrived #capitol #expected #got #here

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#been #being #certain #certain things #delightful