#keepers

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. ↗

— David Byrne

#companies #demise #gatekeepers #good #good thing

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of. ↗

— Justin Halpern

#because #find #front #gatekeepers #get

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#both sides #come #draw #i #keepers

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#humorous #inspirational #keepers #humor

History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#history-politics #peacekeepers #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#ask #defenders #every #forwards #keepers

So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#disney #humor #kigdom-keepers #pee #humor

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down. ↗

— John Edgar Wideman

#children #language #words #music