"The oars game me power but also taught me humility."

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Humility Quotes #Games Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.”
“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”

Source : Margaret Landon (2016). “Anna and the King of Siam”, p.19, Open Road Media
“I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.”
“Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.”
“All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.”
“Every word was once a poem.”
“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”

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