#occasion

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. ↗

— Lou Reed

#been #big #big thing #chord #how

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#aesthetic #applauded #death #found #gotten

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#certain #climbing #did #every #filmed

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#chance #hope #i #korea #meaningful

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#attached #great #ice #large #lump

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#distance #known #mostly #occasions #only

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. ↗

— James Payn

#effect #genial #hand #means #occasional

I have to make rock records occasionally. ↗

— Evan Dando

#make #occasionally #records #rock

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. ↗