#tick

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

All men live enveloped in the whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. ↗

— Herman Melville

#death

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#actress #being #best #concert #getting

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#arm #drum #dynamic #effort #feel

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#instrument #know #knows #nobody #out

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#because #get #happen #luck #out

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#how #i #i can #movies #my own

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#i #i can #just #long #many

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#front #i #moved #only #put

I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#days #diet #five #go #gym