#said

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#could #deeply #enjoyed #father #generously

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death! ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#death #friend #glad #going #i

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#early #i #i remember #many #me

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#class #class clown #clown #friends #i

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard. ↗

— Nusrat F. A. Khan

#become #doctor #hard #me #musician

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is". ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#could #dad #desperate #feeling #future

My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.' ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#brother #find #i #irritating #just

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#book #enough #exists #ocean #otherwise