#rest

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

#around #authority #consideration #destructive #employed

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#life #me #people #spent #underestimating

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#food #good #good food #people #restaurant

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#become #drum #explore #fact #in fact

If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting. ↗

— Solomon Short

#interesting #might #us #watching #well

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#i think #new #new york #rest #soup

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited. ↗

— Elisha Gray

#circles #commercial #creates #interest #limited

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters. ↗