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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#because #call #clean #described #dishes

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. ↗

— Brian Eno

#commonplace #earth #easiest #easiest thing #editing

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#courage #else #lot #our dreams #show

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#literary #never #seriously #start #suicide

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. ↗

— Brian Eno

#even #had #head #i #lot

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. ↗

— Brian Eno

#been #long #music #perhaps #quieter

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests. ↗

— Kit Bond

#because #build #here #high #high priority

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ↗

— Epicurus

#folly #gods #himself #man #obtain