#writ

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #heroes #i #important #other

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. ↗

— Patty Murray

#good #good education #grow #grow up #how

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#appears #being #embedded #form #i

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#even #folded #great #hands #history

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#how #name #pencil #write #you

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#british #came #guitar #heavy #heavy metal

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#american #american politics #analyst #business #commentator

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#college #effect #except #flunked #gone

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#had #i #just #painful #say