#vera

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#average #commonplace #compositions #conceived #false

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ↗

— Terry Southern

#beatles #because #cooper #covers #doing

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#agent #anything #becoming #easy #get

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things. ↗

— Aries Spears

#comedian #could #everyday #everyone #exaggeration

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#group #ignorance #jury #people #twelve

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#care #champion #could #himself #perseverance

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism. ↗

— Pete Stark

#against #area #baghdad #bay #bay area

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. ↗

— George Stephenson

#came #constructed #country #humphrey #i

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. ↗

— James Stewart

#else #go #got #had #i