#try

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #cash #distraction #else #except

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#does #only #poetry #save #save the world

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#am #between #child #country #her

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#am #arduous #circumstances #i #i am

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. ↗

— Diane Glancy

#mold #poetry #uses

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#carolina #citizens #help #i #just

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it! ↗

— Alexa Vega

#already #go #gym #i #muscle

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. ↗

— Iain Glen

#bursts #down #energy #familiar #giving

Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#ever #meat #poultry #probably #safe