#low

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. ↗

— John Updike

#bodies #female #glowing #male #messages

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#blow #done #expert #itself #last

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aid #allowed #coalition #continuing #global

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. ↗

— Paul Valery

#exposes #fellows #judge #judgments #more

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#bearable #being #broadcast #disk #due

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening. ↗

— Frankie Valli

#early morning #half #i #listening #low

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. ↗

— Jack Vance

#blind #computer #computers #find #hard

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#arguing #dancing #drinking #holding #inventing

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#characters #drive #enough #far #full

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived! ↗

— Alan Vega

#away #because #been #blows #coltrane