#ted

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. ↗

— Bob Hope

#down #his #name #off #personally

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#i #paint #side #sunlight #wanted

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#disappointed #i #i think #long #only

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#been #call #commission #cooperate #criticized

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time. ↗

— Sam Houston

#after #did #died #doubt #eight

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#careers #day #die #disappointed #failure

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#honestly #how #i #interested #less

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ↗

— King Hussein I

#among #began #believer #cognizant #departure

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#except #lies #printed #public #spoken

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#better #conditions #could #done #every