#pop

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#cigar #cut #cutting #football #freshly

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop. ↗

— Steve Brown

#between #cheap #cross #know #pop

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#beloved #beware #even #great pleasure #pleasure

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#completed #compute #entirely #manifestations #population

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#empty #important #kind #landscape #only

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

I'm not a pop star. ↗

— Emma Bunton

#pop #pop star #star

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. ↗

— Perry Farrell

#did #ever #first #gosh #i

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ↗

— Ken Burns

#assumptions #challenge #diaries #evidence #history