#of

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#any #bored #completely #different #direction

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#development #example #frontier #give #impact

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#audience #because #box #box office #connection

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#connectedness #connecting #connecting-with-people #philosophy-of-life #age

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#anything #cannot #country #lebanon #never

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#compensation #first #first of all #number #open

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#establish #first #future #happen #i

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. ↗

— Richard Harris

#away #brought #cocoon #completely #custom

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #grief #grieving #quotes #death