#great

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#get #good #gotten #great #groups

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#brand #brand new #early #first #first time

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#concerned #extraordinary #great #great minds #minds

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#greatness #his #lies #man #thought

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#difference #find #finds #greater #intellect

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#charm #death #even #every #fame

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #concerns #constant #continues #creates