#were

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#head #i #i feel #know #off

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #i #idiot #member #myself

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#even #fields #find #hand #other

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#behind #certain #certain point #did #glad

I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere! ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#back #carried #everywhere #got #her

Write as if you were dying. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#were #write #you

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#age #doing #had #home #i

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor. ↗

— David Dinkins

#confident #difference #differently #him #his

Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#anybody #broke #charlie #good #his

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at. ↗

— Celine Dion

#beautiful #cheering #everybody #hugging #i