#pre

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#bit #colonel #father #high #i

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy. ↗

— Frank Black

#bag #bands #because #been #certainly

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time. ↗

— Frank Black

#audience #every #every time #got #great

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages. ↗

— Frank Black

#believe #between #called #connects #differences

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#elated #feel #i #i feel

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #interest #much #philosophical #pretty

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. ↗

— Len Dawson

#catch #condition #essentially #improved #incurable

They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube. ↗

— Frank Black

#cool #different #everything #generation #i

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers. ↗

— Frank Black

#amp #credit #give #good #got