#want

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#excited #i #just #movie #opportunity

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense. ↗

— Charlene Tilton

#before #cold #daredevil #exhausted #feel

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ↗

— Henry Knox

#civil war #done #failure #horror #involved

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#could #i #just #know #makes

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#anything #call #cool #fine #formula

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architect #build #concert #concert hall #great

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#best #cities #context #create #desired

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#different #maybe #name #need #own

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#children #find #first #how #important

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go