#ear

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#believe #bit #could #i #just

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#circumstances #exalt #historians #how #improve

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#adversary #against #deterrent #meant #nuclear

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. ↗

— Ted Turner

#concentrated #control #few #few people #five

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. ↗

— Tina Turner

#ago #because #been #came #could

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ↗

— Mark Twain

#deaf #hear #kindness #language #see

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ↗

— Mark Twain

#any #die #fear #follows #fully

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. ↗

— Mark Twain

#comes #end #everything #i #later

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#collecting #come #even #geared #get

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#consolation #dismal #ears #even #hope