#nin

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cream #eat #everything #i #ice

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critic #critical #evaluation #good #maintaining

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#nine #past #period #questioning #represented

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#consciously #dreams #get #hear #i

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line. ↗

— Jung Chang

#because #book #friend #going #half

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you. ↗

— Michael Chang

#chasing #dreams #fast #grab #just

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#because #beginning #dear #dear friend #definitely