#we

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#cultivated #fertile #free #well

The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over. ↗

— Christine McVie

#authentic #beautiful #better #blues #chicken

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#being #guitar #guitarist #however #i

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#days #five #hundred #i #people

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#canvas #like #pistols #were #work

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#anyone #day #definitively #eternal #fate

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#absolutely #could #doing #emotions #express