#tune

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going

Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune! ↗

— Robert Ley

#again #called #day #faith #fortune

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ↗

— Lord Byron

#always #believed #depended #fortune #i

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#cheer #come #hardest #let us #misfortunes

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#batting #because #brilliant #discovered #formula

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. ↗

— Steve Martin

#basic #book #down #earl #get

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#being #black #blood #capitalism #dearly

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ↗

— William McFee

#doing #ever #guarantee #misfortune #people