#wit

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#completely #i #money #refugee #studying

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. ↗

— Maya Lin

#got #graduate #graduate school #i #learn

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#bullet #care #comes #fast #feet

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#remove #risk #vine #wither #you

What fun is life without a bit of showing off? ↗

— Matt Lucas

#fun #life #off #showing #without

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#days #i #live #long #thou

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#before #case #direction #even #i

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#brooks #cast #day #every #hearing

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#am #began #called #defending #existence