#though

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#had #heard #i #instantly #just

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#away #book #ghost #holy #holy ghost

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#even #exactly #hear #i #me

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#care #first #get #give #group

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. ↗

— Mo Yan

#characters #convey #deep #his #novel

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! ↗

— Lea Thompson

#brief period #desire #extreme #get #lasted

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #big #big cars #big hair #boxes

Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones. ↗

— Kerry King

#even #good #hell #internet #new

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ↗

— Janet Clarkson's blog: "The Old Foodie"

#food