#ling

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#appear #curtain #giving #goes #happy

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#about #any #down #good #ideas

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being. ↗

— Phil Spector

#bona #bona fide #dealing #fide #human

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arranged #compensate #constituting #each #equilibrium

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#i #into #medicine #sailing #sort

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling. ↗

— Max Baer

#falling #hit #i #me #times

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. ↗