#thing

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#cars #contrived #dangerous #dangerous thing #dreams

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#friendly #looks #possible #tomorrow

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#away #difficult #far #far away #future

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#avoid #been #before #everything #hear

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#all things #army #become #big #could

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it. ↗

— Evan Davis

#being #big #big thing #bit #gay