#the

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much. ↗

— LeBron James

#asking #bother #cast #feel #foundation

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

#clever #effect #emotional #guitar #guitar solos

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife. ↗

— Charles Ives

#anything #because #certain #done #father

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. ↗

— David Ives

#always #existential #family #intense #intense love

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#better #days #feel #i #least

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#brighter #came #cannot #central #healthier

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#chauvinism #complicated #country #lot #make

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#boy #boy bands #exploded #great #height

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#active role #although #cards #destiny #great