#ring

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#beverly #blew #earl #head #hearing

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#happy #happy music #inspiring #music

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#because #catholic #catholic guilt #favor #guilt

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#been #commission #during #governor #had

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#essential #essential thing #fighting #games #important

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am. ↗

— Katie Couric

#become #been #corny #difficult #during

I won the city scoring championship as a senior. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#city #i #scoring #senior #won

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diplomatic #truths #unpleasant #unpleasant truths #wearing

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back. ↗

— Peter Criss

#back #drums #during #go #i