#use

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. ↗

— Robert Taft

#common #common sense #defies #house #politician

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything. ↗

— David Talbot

#assassinations #because #change #end #establishment

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #discouragement #encouragement #family #fiction

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#believe #biologist #came #could #down

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#bob #comedy #dressing #dressing room #foundation

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#because #been #building #child #chose

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#could #entered #environment #eventually #experience

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#back #being #born #gone #grew

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#i #i am #life #longer #my life