#elle

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#intellectual #into #just #out #overly

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#considered #country #everybody #foot #him

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes. ↗

— Mike Myers

#actor #alec #christopher #comedic #dan

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cable #car #dominate #john #media

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#create #determining #entire #instrument #landscapes

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. ↗

— Ernest Newman

#higher #intellect #smaller #voice

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#game #heartbreaking #losing #sense #tragedy

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. ↗

— John Thorn

#anticipated #attend #background #certainly #contemplated

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. ↗

— Tom Peters

#change #constant #excellence #excellent #firms