#ought

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#enough #extent #i #legal #live

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album. ↗

— Sonny Terry

#album #big #bought #cotton #curve

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#each #i #language #respectful #sing

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. ↗

— John Milton

#brought #comes #her #him #into

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#because #doing #example #go #i

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#really #thought #tough #writer

I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#great #happen #i #i always #member

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#rogues