#outstanding

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have. ↗

— Vince Cable

#british #class #companies #i #job

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#headlines #lives #outstanding #save #specialty

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#because #captain #figured #first #haven

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#debt #doubled #economic #in the past #municipal

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#before #big #big thing #come #get

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constant #domination #feature #history #life

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#ball #ballplayer #father #i #me

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact