#rum

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#done #express #himself #his #honestly

Voice is my instrument. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#voice

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#instruments #most #quality #vocal

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#faculty #i #instrument #myself #possess

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome ↗

— Rumiko Takahashi

#inuyasha #kagome #kikyo #manga #rumiko

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me. ↗

— Steve Swallow

#because #devise #found #i #impacted

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#bought #day #eleven #fiddle #first

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#each #fix #images #made #measured