#ten

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#brain #line #make #music #rhythm

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contrary #earnest #error #more #often

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #buy #father #had #interesting

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#bit #i #i always #keeps #little

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#general #good #good things #guys #haven

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#face #i #like #look #off

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. ↗

— John Doerr

#express #i #i think #identity #large

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#city #conservatory #i #less #mexico

Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#virtue