#quit

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously. ↗

— Kate Smith

#approach #been #i #laboriously #many

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#ego #got #i #like #looks

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #back #care #eating #every

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#abide #against #anger #decision #either

At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#enjoying #grisham #i #john #john grisham

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#changed #first #i #outline #quite

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#had #heavily #i #impact #into

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #commonly #course #developing #developing world

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#crystallize #different #economy #environment #granted