#thou

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#essence #generosity #gives #readily #sacrifice

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know? ↗

— Noah Taylor

#always #belief #held #i #know

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#comparable #future #himself #immediate #immediate future

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#absolutely nothing #band #denny #exactly #great

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#forced #go #i #myself #never

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#every #fool #guard #hour #jealous

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#feel #i #i think #lot #married

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#came #certain #certain things #changed #contract

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down