#si

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#history #japan #jazz #know #more

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#failure #i #simply #word

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#every #god #good #heartache #how

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#liked #really #singing #westerns

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#desire #intense #intense desire #only #opportunities

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#faith #life #living #makes #something

My longing for truth was a single prayer. ↗

— Edith Stein

#prayer #single #truth

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #best #between #block #blocks

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#business #first #go #grammar #him