#thing

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#convince #did #difficult #finally #get

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bit #chore #enjoy #get #guitar

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#got #head #i #know #me

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player. ↗

— Guy Clark

#chris #down #ear #engineer #fiddle

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#human #less #something #superhuman #than

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#anything #i #proud #think #unworthy

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#love #love you #pay #price #some

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#borrowed #bother #come #go #i

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. ↗

— Chris Christie

#another #benefit #benefits #care #career