#sin

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. ↗

— Bret Harte

#bush #certainty #hand #may #sing

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#brenda #everything #family #great #great writer

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. ↗

— Anita Desai

#best #could #doing #ever #first

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#alarm #basic #business #difficulty #easily

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#blacks #bursting #charm #colored #colors

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? ↗

— William O. Douglas

#awe #been #bow #expected #represent

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#cut #cutting #getting #here #increases

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#creative #creative process #exponentially #involved #just

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. ↗

— Usher

#future #i #philosophy #raising

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. ↗

— Marat Safin

#just #just be #lose #losing #man