#ever

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. ↗

— Josh Billings

#bear #everyone #ice #more #see

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. ↗

— Erasmus Darwin

#fool #his #life #man #never

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#back #everything #gone #happier #houses

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#before #by the time #ever #faster #i