#only

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#back #cuba #europe #forgotten #grandparents

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#only #poetry #profound #ridiculous #seems

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. ↗

— Alfred Kinsey

#cannot #only #perform #sex #unnatural

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#i #interested #not interested #only #people

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#beginning #dream #many #new #only

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me. ↗

— Jerry Hunt

#always #been #could #ever #get

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. ↗

— Henry Irving

#everything #fancy #forth #into #intonation

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising. ↗

— Terry Semel

#both #branded #company #leadership #only

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#back #bangladesh #closest #closest friends #collaborators