#dl

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse! ↗

— Tom Araya

#clicking #come #entire #i #me

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#behind #confidence #control #edge #even

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#any #anyone #certainly #find #had

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#acted #art #because #excellence #habit

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ↗

— Aristotle

#condition #existence #friendless #having #other

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#ago #author #book #buy #could

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#childhood #dad #did #fact #feel

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. ↗

— John Aubrey

#did #down #forgot #how #i

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#been #believe #ever #fondly #granted

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine