#favor

If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly there can be no foundation below which a human being cannot sink. What capitalists must realize is that you are fighting to make capitalism survive, not destroy it; you are fighting to eliminate the seeds of destruction inherent in the status quo." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's letter to Don Matchan, 27 April 1947 ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#letters #political-observation #money

The most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest phrases, since no one can ever express the exact measure of his needs, his conceptions or his sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked pot on which we beat out rhythms for bears to dance to when we are striving to make music that will wring tears from the stars ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#music

Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I’ll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning." - Drew Evans ↗

— Emma Chase

#romantic #romantic

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#favorite #hoosiers #i #jimmy #like

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me. ↗

— Mose Allison

#boogie #effect #era #favorites #had

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. ↗

— Casey Abrams

#favorite #great #i #i love #jazz

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line. ↗

— Malin Akerman

#far #favorite #go #goofball #how

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#always #did #favorite #favorite things #felt

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#effort #favorite #myself #out #parts