#tru

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#deaths #i #i am #i think #i write

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#become #defeat #either #every #everything

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#collector #his #i #knows #motivation

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#anybody #desire #errand #i #instruct

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe. ↗

— Joel Madden

#just #stay #stay true #true #you

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#called #come #cooks #could #enough

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. ↗

— James Madison

#men #ought #power #truth #truth is