#ran

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#been #coming #couple #grand #grand slam

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

#building #character #creating #i #into

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#folk #little #masters #music #strange

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#america #available #begun #border #cities

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#avenue #collect #collected #effort #fifth

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. ↗

— Leonard Bailey

#awesome responsibility #caretakers #chance #involved #more

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#ask #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom #how

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if the peerless maid, Dulcinea del Toboso, is to be restored to the state that was once hers, it needs must be that thy squire Sancho take on his bared behind, those sturdy buttocks, must consent to take three thousand lashes and three hundred more, and well laid on, that they may sting and smart; for those are the authors of her woe have thus resolved, and that is why I've come, This, gentles, is the word I bring to you. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#translated #verse #art