#al

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ↗

— James Thurber

#appreciative #audience #cannot #chuckle #comedy

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

Law is always better than war. ↗

— Brian Eno

#better #law #than #war

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#audiences #be happy #bigger #change #get

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. ↗

— Brian Eno

#contemplate #future #global #global warming #i

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. ↗

— Brian Eno

#actually #atheist #chance #evangelical #gives

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. ↗

— Brian Eno

#doing #haven #i #interested #people

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#creates #discovered #electronic #i #new

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. ↗

— Brian Eno

#got #historical #i #kind #life

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. ↗

— Brian Eno

#bother #fabulous #find #had #i