#ill

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#doing #idiotic #insanity #just #knowing

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#activity #arrogant #assertion #century #comprehensible

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#aware #difficult #dream #match #playing

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#farmer #kill #lightning #old #old age

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#black sabbath #boy #could #delivery #fun

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#burn #cast #fingers #freedom #furnace

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does