#stead

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#electric #got #i #instead #saxophone

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#around #boring #complaining #done #else

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#blessings #counting #envy #fellow #instead

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #fit #how #instead #known

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#chosen #family #fun #going #hang

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#bowl #dressing #dump #enough #greens

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#american #american lives #around #blamed #budgetary

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ↗

— Marie Curie

#errors #establishing #hunt #hurry #instead