#strikes

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down! ↗

— John Aspinall

#billion #catastrophe #day #down #earth

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#buy #countenance #create #cultural #cultural diversity

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#author #convention #distinction #given #hearts

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#day #depends #filming #great #great day

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes. ↗

— Sally Field

#got #just #magic #sometimes #strikes

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes. ↗

— Neil Peart

#air #album #anytime #artistic #creative

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#home #home plate #just #move #plate

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#blessed #exercise #faith #free #instead

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#depends #happens #how #life #more