#sk

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. ↗

— Paula Cole

#awards #bask #death #i #like

I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#box #bring #could #go #got

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#came #i #improvise #instance #instrument

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold. ↗

— Jerry Vale

#cure #far #most #popular #remedies

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ask #best #even #examinations #fool

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#could #made #men #people #subjected

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#fear #his #holy #intention #just

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#command #had #highly #scientists #skilled

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. ↗

— Confucius

#art #asked #give #go #gods

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. ↗

— William Congreve

#fellow #find #fool #hard #his