#iv

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. ↗

— Brian Eno

#activity #areas #commit #cultures #feelings

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #rethink #surrender #verb #want

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #certainly #cultivate #grow #grow up

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ↗

— Brian Eno

#back #bar #broke #cause #chords

I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York. ↗

— Blake Lively

#believe #i #live #new #new york

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot! ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#careful #doing #driver #grandma #her

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#cry #feelings #men #only #own

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#also #depend #functions #i #institutions

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. ↗

— Herta Müller

#death-and-dying #gulag #hunger #starvation #will-to-live

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#give #had #however #i #introductory