#ron

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ↗

— Ella Fitzgerald

#go #i #inspiration #just #love

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. ↗

— Esther Forbes

#belief #believe #books #hold #i

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#basics #down #his #how #i

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#calamity #characteristics #courage #faces #grow

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity. ↗

— Terry Fox

#ask #autograph #down #finished #front

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ↗

— A. J. Foyt

#bad luck #cars #dad #daddy #drivers

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#always #angry #gets #man #won

...I had stood outside of Poe's house on 3rd street, too, and had done the same thing, staring mournfully up at the windows. The city was like some uncarved block without any name or shape and it showed no favoritism. Everything was always new, always changing. It was never the same old crowd upon the streets. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#change

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#against #back #electronic #fellow #get