#aw

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#draw #expression #form #i #life

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#arrives #art #between #comes #difference

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #awards #ego #egos #everybody

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#childless #mother-in-law #persona #political #single

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#boring #i #myself #philosopher #see

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#kiss #mara-dyer #noah-shaw #ya #regret

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#difficult #gradually #me #more #mother

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front. ↗

— Tom Udall

#filed #forward #front #lawsuit #legislation