#marching

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? ↗

— Patti LuPone

#effect #get #high #high school #i

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bands #big #big companies #built #companies

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#ended #good #good things #gulf #gulf war

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#another #aware #became #broke #communication

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier. ↗

— Theodore White

#bus #chorus #composition #felt #flew

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#become #did #him #just #kept

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. ↗

— Martin Mull

#art #art school #course #discovery #enjoyed

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. ↗

— Robert Patrick

#did #famous #fonda #jane #jane fonda