#i

I love story songs because I've always loved books. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#because #books #i #i love #love

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#business #chance #could #dad #everything

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#got #i #me #people #petrified

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#big #brain #break #bruce #doing

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#being #brain #england #getting #had

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#did #equipment #five #get #gig

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#horribly #individuals #might #mundane #say

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ↗

— Plato

#democracy #naturally #out #tyranny

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #created #creator #every #every man

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause