#eat

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#born #halfway #his way #i #i was born

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#art #artist #audience #creating #discovered

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#mortality #poetry #death

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#humor #death

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#did #going #got #greatest #had

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#aspects #better #better off #coming #creative

It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops. ↗

— Henri Riviere

#life #time #death

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#as far as #attention #classical #classical music #concerned

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#affected #ancient #australia #because #climate