#pens

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#complain #funny #got #happens #headline

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#dependent #dime #food #friends #i

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#compensated #his #hundreds #knowledge #millions

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #artistic #artistic expression #china #creative

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better. ↗

— Macklemore

#american way #better #expensive #kind #makes

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever. ↗

— Joel Madden

#even #goal #good #happens #i

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. ↗

— James Madison

#burden #carrying #each #expense #generation