#ink

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us. ↗

— Gene Ween

#freaks #i #i think #intelligent #intelligent people

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. ↗

— Gene Ween

#cent #ninety-nine #opening #per #stink

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. ↗

— Simone Weil

#commit #crucifixion #envy #every #every time

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#ape #explore #going #hit #i

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#completely #found #going #life #love

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#american #american dream #anything #build #dream

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#i #i think #latin #logic #some