#transit

I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling into a new horizon. Drenched to the skin, I stood on Dunoon’s pier peering seawards through diagonal rain, looking for the ferry that would take me home. There, on the everwet west coast of Scotland, I heard it: like sonic scalpels, the sounds of electric guitars sliced through the dreich weather. My body hairs pricked up, each one a willing receiver for the Thunder-God grooves. To my young ears, the sound of these amplified guitars was angelic (although, with hindsight, I don’t suppose angels play Gibson guitars at ear-bleeding volume). A voice that suggested vocal chords of polished silver soared alongside razor-sharp overdriven riffs. I knew that I was hearing the future. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #rite-of-passage #rock-music

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difficult #enjoyed #hard #rewarding #something

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process. ↗

— John Abizaid

#clear #concerns #disrupt #event #hard

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#college #did #generation #get #go

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#acting #going #high #high school #i

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#nothing #seems #series #transitions

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#compatible #competitive #dollar #during #global

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us. ↗

— George Carey

#aware #christian #course #did #forces

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#administration #always #bill #budget #completely

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#acceptance #advantage #anyone #had #happen