#tan

Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed. ↗

— Benny Green

#completely #cue #enjoy #fact #going

The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. ↗

— Bob Greene

#being #competition #constantly #know #late

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#anthem #days #early #francis #important

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ↗

— William Trevor

#fiction #imagination #indeed #thinking #understanding

Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort. ↗

— Luis de Guindos

#collective #earn #effort #example #give

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style. ↗

— James Gunn

#appropriate #beyond #discover #else #find

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#images #misery #reminiscent #thirty #war

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that. ↗

— John Lee Hancock

#get #guide #having #i #i think

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ↗

— Learned Hand

#breach #cannot #cold #disconcerting #doubt