#once

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#inconceivable #incredible #itself #like #music

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry! ↗

— John Lennon

#beatles #concerts #jewelry #music #stage-patter

Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#concert #entertainment #etiquette #music #ticketmaster

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#caricatures #habitat #how #natural #nature

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#decision #man #once #stand #take

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

#could #distance #far #farther #found

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contemplation #derived #elevating #i #intense

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like: What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas? ↗

— Tom Conrad

#chance #conception #fate #ghosts #midnight-merlot

Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves. ↗

— Francis Bond Head

#arrived #burst #clearly #darkness #had