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“Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.”
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“In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.”
Source : George Vecsey (2008). “Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game”, p.95, Modern Library
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“You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.”
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“Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.”
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“Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.”
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“I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.”
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“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
Source : Kamila Shamsie (2004). “Kartography”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.”
Source : Edmar Mednis (1983). “From the opening into the endgame”, Pergamon