#who

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#breath #brief #brief moment #granted #grave

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#comfortable #doing #feeling #felt #had

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#boxes #every #get #knighthood #letter

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. ↗

— William James

#every man #feels #force #full #himself

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album. ↗

— Jewel

#album #always #avoided #been #better

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#creepy #kind #knew #odd #people

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#basketball court #breathes #court #crazy #eats

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#admired #audience #back #better #congress

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#also #become #called #did #origin

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#did #father #first #had #hand