#ours

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. ↗

— Hal David

#everyone #gone #graceful #haven #how

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor. ↗

— Thayer David

#because #commercial #complete #easily #few

I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval. ↗

— Paula Deen

#cookie #dentist #does #drilling #face

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#anthropologist #asked #before #called #came

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. ↗

— Democritus

#course #former #latter #mark #prudence

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#day #during #enough #find #hard

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#i #know #know yourself #me #surprise

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #country #did #down #falling