#some

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me. ↗

— Larry Bird

#enough #i #know #me #more

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. ↗

— Larry David

#eventually #i #kept #me #quite

I believe in something. ↗

— Larry David

#i #i believe #i believe in #something

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me. ↗

— Larry David

#cringe #did #ever #going #i

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted. ↗

— Larry David

#how #i #misinterpreted #some #sometimes

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself. ↗

— Larry David

#day #ever #gone #hearing #how

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. ↗

— Josh Billings

#folks #got #haven #i #impudence

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry. ↗

— Evan Davis

#electricity #first #industry #money #need