#v

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. ↗

— Acker Bilk

#come #going #i #i think #i wonder

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#life

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dodger #every #game #games #go

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.' ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#men #never #terms #thought #women

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance? ↗

— William H. Wharton

#confident #entirely #his #indefatigable #industry