#past

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answer #been #business #centuries #english

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#ever #future #ghost #now #past

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#always #away #be strong #because #been

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#admired #already #beatles #choices #i

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary #culture #degree #extension #geographical

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. ↗

— John Cusack

#every #holding #holding on #keep #kind

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#another #buying #cover #day #every

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past. ↗

— Ivica Dacic

#been #blood #deal #enough #future

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. ↗

— Paula Deen

#causes #come #diabetes #five #food

I am fascinated with times past. ↗

— Frank Darabont

#fascinated #i #i am #past #times