#things

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#developed #ear #ears #eric #eric clapton

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#came #could #hard #i #limits

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#bought #cannot #create #else #gratitude

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#across #care #country #democrat #different

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#fate #how #many #matter #struggle

My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things. ↗

— Dante Hall

#about #because #being #excite #family

One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer. ↗

— R.J. Gonzales

#living-life-to-the-fullest #taking-things-slwo #life

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong. ↗

— Edward Hall

#conspirators #enable #fix #go #henry

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

#appropriate #ask #brandy #call #current