#lad

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#ballads #became #become #blues #british

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon! ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#absolutely #afternoon #bridge #draw #i

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#dozens #each #explain #fire #glad

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! ↗

— Thia Megia

#ballad #being #definitely #future #i

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brought #different #glad #had #hard

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#asked #clothing #i #into #lady

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#garden #i #salad

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#lady #may #more #princess #richest

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

#came #climbed #compromises #easy #electoral

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had