#or

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#each #focus #records #theme

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally groomed to be the successor to the decrepit Francisco Franco. His car blew up, killing only him and his chauffeur with a carefully planted charge, and not only was the world well rid of another fascist, but, more important, the whole scheme of extending Franco's rule was vaporized in the same instant. The dictator had to turn instead to Crown Prince Juan Carlos, who turned out to be the best Bourbon in history and who swiftly dismantled Franco's entire system. If this action was 'terrorism,' it had something to be said for it. Everyone I knew in Spain made a little holiday in their hearts when the gruesome admiral went sky-high. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#equivalent #negative #performance #print #score

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

You know what would help?" I asked, not meeting his eyes. "Hmm?" "If you turned off this crap music and put on something that came out after the Berlin Wall went down." Dimitri laughted. "Your worst class is history, yet somehow, you know everything about Eastern Europe." "Hey, gotta have material for my jokes, Comrade." Still smiling, he turned the radio dail. To a country station. "Hey! This isn't what I had in mind," I exclaimed. I could tell he was on the verge of laughing again. "Pick. It's one or the other." I sighed. "Go back to the 1980s stuff." He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. ↗

— Henry Adams

#digest #man #more #must #now

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#cliches #come #i #know #other

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#celebrity #i #more #think

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#another #anyone #bizarre #disappear #discovers