There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.


Thomas E. Lawrence

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E. E. CUMMINGS
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS
next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS
he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS
and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS
"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS
We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK
Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK
For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE
I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE