#ted

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

I knew I always wanted to sing. ↗

— David Ruffin

#i #i always #knew #sing #wanted

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#billie #build #competitively #continue #created

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#am #continue #country #duty #economy

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#agony #created #did #gall #god

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#criticize #education #essential #i #i think

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#class #expected #here #knowledge #me

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me. ↗

— Harrison Salisbury

#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted. ↗

— Walter Salles

#complete #complete freedom #did #direction #done