#thing

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#beginning #end #funny #hear #live

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#confidence #embarrassed #i #limelight #over

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #dozen #had #half #i

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#called #i #intellectual #many #never

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

#beauty #conjectures #creating #embody #far

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. ↗

— Donald Judd

#go #i #interesting #just #labor

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ↗

— Josh Billings

#like #one thing #postage #stamp #stick

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. ↗

— Josh Billings

#best time #bust #feel #hold #must