#po

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#opportunities #period #youth

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#because #brothers #did #enormous #guys

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#based #because #being #clinton #consider

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #kind #life #my life #spontaneous

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#nature #our #repose #truest #water

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #as far as #been #before #ever

I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#dark #poetic-fiction #beauty

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#care #disappointed #i #smith #want

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#i #interest #model #nor #possible