#sayin

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. ↗

— Ben Folds

#band #ben #big #broke #end

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' ↗

— Ben Fountain

#another way #bloomer #late #late bloomer #learner

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#along #beats #case #comes #disappears

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#before #coming #difficult #get #glenn

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

#british #business #business person #chairman #entertainers

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable. ↗

— Howard Coble

#commanders #congress #debate #i #iraqi

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#arresting #been #better #better job #deported

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter! ↗

— Chris Colfer

#calling #calls #classes #daughter #district

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#die #even #even now #how #i

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get. ↗

— John Engler

#harder #i #luckier #old #saying