#thing

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#foreign #foreign service #guts #out #people

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#else #innumerable #mass #milky #milky way

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.' ↗

— Al Franken

#almost #asked #been #couple #day

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good. ↗

— Al Franken

#bit #business #get #good #had

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#alien #anything #because #could #experienced

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human. ↗

— Michael Franti

#human #just #sometimes #stay #the hardest thing

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#beautiful #beautiful thing #being #body #cool

I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#going #i #lucky #thing #throat

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. ↗

— Michael Frayn

#being #catastrophically #create #creating #good