B B King It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. – B B King Asleep Quotes Harder Quotes Nights Quotes People Quotes Play Quotes Scales Quotes Sit Quotes If you can’t get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
Amy Waldman While researching ‘The Submission,’ I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated. – Amy Waldman
Sue Johanson Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I’m scared. There’s some stuff I don’t know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They’ll read it. – Sue Johanson
Scott Garrett Somebody made the point with regard to President Obama that, because he tried to do so much so fast, so extreme on health care, on energy, just run down the list, he went to… the fringe elements of his party to satisfy their demands. – Scott Garrett
Charles Petzold I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn’t work. – Charles Petzold
John Burroughs Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. – John Burroughs
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