#say

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fat #glasses #i #just #like

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next! ↗

— Peter Garrett

#arrived #capitol #expected #got #here

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#buy #doing #drink #got #i

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#down #drink #get #learn #lot

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#common man #demands #distinguish #excellent #excellent man

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#characteristics #i #like #mockery #opposed

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. ↗

— Bill Gates

#become #communication #created #creativity #empowering

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. ↗

— Bill Gates

#able #back #because #being #creative

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.' ↗

— Melinda Gates

#constantly #i #i was born #lucky #myself