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I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them. ↗


— Neko Case


#give #hints #i #i write #like

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership. ↗


— Steve Case


#come #couple #decades #down #great

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. ↗


— Johnny Cash


#far #field #goes #i #i think

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001. ↗


— Paul Cellucci


#canada #close #community #did #gander

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. ↗


— Paul Cellucci


#gas #get #governor #i #into

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ↗


— Miguel de Cervantes


#experience #long #long experience #proverb #sentence

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. ↗


— Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#atomic #atomic bombs #been #bombs #dark

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ↗


— Miguel de Cervantes


#applied #aptly #conversation #forever #hit

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves. ↗


— Miguel de Cervantes


#considerable #good #great #inferiors #most

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗


— Andrew Vachss


#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith






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