#though

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#annoying #believe #born #children #hard

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#back #board #did #facebook #first

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#avoid #belief #cannot #dispense #ever

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

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#band #direction #i #las #las vegas

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#entered #family #go #halen #hollywood

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays. ↗

— Edward Hall

#energy #felt #henry #plays #political

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#appearance #beard #bit #elegant #father

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#faults #general #good #may #plan