#pi

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#attorney general #call #clock #evening #general

Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#championship #first #first world #great #home

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#always #cage #dreaming #eyes #free

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#going #i #lessons #next #piano

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #boring #i #i remember #just

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out. ↗

— Breaux Greer

#gotta #hey #i #know #living

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#athlete #barriers #competitive #crash #demands

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#did #down #house #i #i think

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies