#fe

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#coming #ever #feel #genre #get

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#being #entered #far-fetched #hollywood #i

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#dreamer #his #idiot #philosopher #speculative

Life is wasted on the living. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#living #wasted

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. ↗

— Henry Adams

#effect #ends #killing #men #power

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. ↗

— Voltaire

#born to be #devoured #eaten #eighty #flies

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. ↗

— Thomas McGuane

#literature #writing #writing-life #death

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#difficulties #disappear #effect #magical #obstacles

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. ↗

— John Adams

#away #considered #declaration #effect #glory