#things

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. ↗

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#escape #know #made #man #me

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #bandstand #beat #club #feel

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. ↗

— Benny Green

#environment #even #happen #like #looking

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#before #capable #come #decades #drawer

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. ↗

— Brian Greene

#doorstep #explore #finally #precision #put

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things. ↗

— Terry Gross

#favorite things #i #i love #love #love songs

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗