#thing

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#anything #framework #get #good #got

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#bill #bill of rights #defense #fight #homes

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear! ↗

— William Allen Butler

#cost #declare #dollars #dress #five

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted. ↗

— Paul Butterfield

#been #blues #different #different things #doing

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#changed #contain #doubt #european #favour

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#find #make #must #never #time

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to. ↗

— John Byng

#lying #morning #next #nothing #saw

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#his #however #make #mean #music