#per

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ↗

— Don Marquis

#guy #had #much #never #optimist

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#helped #i #ourselves #person #remembered

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. ↗

— Barry Mann

#alcohol #become #big #fear #how

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. ↗

— Barry Mann

#boy #bus #i #mountains #performed

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#astonished #correct #experimental #frequently #i

That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#first #love #experience

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality. ↗

— Peyton Manning

#i do #like #people #personality #some

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. ↗

— Preston Manning

#convictions #personal #political #populist #rooted

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#band #believe #discover #fans #freedom