#tru

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#bought #day #eleven #fiddle #first

A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'. ↗

— Toba Beta

#believing #blasphemy #credo #evil #life

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy. ↗

— Cher

#him #his #i #lazy #like

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily. ↗

— Marguerite Yourcenar

#easily #i #lie #more #never

Living in this world will change you,” she confides. “It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don’t think it’s normal; I think it’s a fucking miracle. ↗

— Michael Ruhlman

#change

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#each #fix #images #made #measured

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#me #movies #once #passport #someone

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity. ↗

— Ellen Schreiber

#love #true-love #love

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#debate #decision #family #i #insert