#try

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#i #i can #just #level #play

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#limit #maybe #me #myself #other

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#being #coming #course #human #human being

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#best #closer #different #form #i

I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#better #cannot #country #day #did

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#i #make #men #more #sensitive

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#electric #good #great #him #how

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#country #elsewhere #england #longer #man

Why should poetry have to make sense? ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#poetry #sense #should #why