#up

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#capitol #city #dedicated #engines #had

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#awful #came #collective #going #i

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#guess #i #just #pianist #rather

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#been #i #imagination #limit #only

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#give #going #invent #lot #most

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#catch #happened #monk #more #original

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#flood #material #nobody #stand #stand up

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#acting #entire #entire life #few #george

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#enough #good #good parts #i #maybe

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#comeback #end #i #knew #made