#sing

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#every #i #me #olympics #rank

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. ↗

— David Tudor

#like #much #performing #putting #raising

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. ↗

— Tommy Tune

#itself #keep #like #presenting #show

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. ↗

— Scott Turow

#fiction #lessons #life #need #reduced

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. ↗

— Tina Turner

#ago #because #been #came #could

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#agreed #certain #death #did #god

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays. ↗

— Ville Valo

#first #guys #i #kiss #make