#iced

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#because #collection #describe #i #journalists

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#commitment #inspired #life #me #mom

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#critics #disagree #ever #how #lot

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#cosmetic #doctor #full #going #i

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#being #billion #dollars #entitlement #even

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart