#uses

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#excuses #finished #gonna #i #like

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#bow #cars #celebrities #down #fame

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#bow #cars #celebrities #down #fame

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. ↗

— Manning Marable

#generation #intellectual #leave #out #overcome

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes. ↗

— Rob Mariano

#also #been #causes #charity #country

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#criminalize #herb #i #i think #just

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#bad #causes #elections #him #immediate