#thou

I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be. ↗

— Eric Davis

#could #disappointed #down #everyone #everything

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#dear #deflation #held #indeed #inflation

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#i #jest #know #life #life is a

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years. ↗

— Eric Davis

#ball #children #circulating #despite #god

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#background #be nice #deny #different #i

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#feathers #never #sings #soul #stops

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#deal #even #got #i #sample

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you! ↗

— Catherine Crier

#been #everyone #excited #five #i

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#die #go #got #guarantee #happen