#rating

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#exhilarating #find #i #loved #singing

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. ↗

— Liz Phair

#collaborating #difficult #fact #i #independence

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#because #else #fantasy #frustrating #frustrating thing

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#ate #chicken #conferences #dad #demonstrating

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#building #children #consists #content #decorating

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bookshelves #building #children #consists #content

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#both #celebrating #fellow #goodness #greatness

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#area #because #buck #came #decorating

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#become #been #compiler #could #different

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#energy #example #for example #infrared #large