#la

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#bass players #bruce #changed #cream #did

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#characters #find #i #i always #relate

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#firm #glasgow #guitarist #i #law

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#promiscuity #relationships #relationship

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#earth #eyes #like #men #our

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. ↗

— Judith Butler

#harassment #i #i think #important #known

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#behaved #dance #each #hand #how

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#already #classes #day #doing #feedback