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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#happens #nothing #radio #say #says

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#glories #noun #possibility #same #simplicity

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#i #made #pronouncements #want

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax. ↗

— Richard Neal

#alternative #american #american people #announce #best

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. ↗

— Julian Sands

#announced #going #great #scandal #time

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i