#occasions

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#ask #because #composition #different #duke

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ↗

— John Buchan

#charm #elusive #fishing #hope #occasions

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #clear #course #go #grown

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #many #occasions #seen #thought

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. ↗

— Maria Monk

#altar #assembled #before #belonging #ceremony

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #been #bitter #cannot #consumer

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. ↗

— Sister Parish

#interrupted #last #lives #many #occasions

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#aware #certainly #dominate #fashion #i

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover