#ode

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#been #had #i #jonathan #lovers

I (John Stone) have never had any great desire to abolish poverty or save fallen women; I am, and always have been, deeply suspicious of those who wish to do these things. They normally cause more harm than good and, in my experience, their desire for power, to control others, is very much greater than that of any businessman. p 455 Stone's Fall ↗

— Iain Pears

#experience

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#absolutely #also #brothers #browning #care

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arrogance #atheism #modesty #religion #solipsism

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#better #desirable #exist #genuine #great

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#buying #every #hardly #interdependent #kind

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#how #i #learning #like #lot

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#caring #facial #gives #grows #her

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#am #feebleness #feeling #horrified #i

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#economy #got #having #left #modern