#pa

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#cry #dean #did #finally #get

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bitter #cold #cruelty #fruit #love

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ↗

— Robert Browning

#beast #distinctive #finds #god #hopes

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? ↗

— Robert Browning

#bent #carve #ever #groaning #how

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. ↗

— Robert Browning

#finite #hearts #i #infinite #only

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

Communism is like one big phone company. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#big #communism #company #like #phone

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#god #i #like #mccartney #paul

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#credit #get #got #more #movies