#pro

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. ↗

— Tim Finn

#gone #i #i think #like #lot

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#after #all day #any #aware #beatles

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#bit #celebrities #guy #i #just

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#i #know #operates #proposals #security

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#certain #certain age #get #got #just

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #beautiful #beautiful things #become #fashion

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#commonplace #did #done #effect #freshness

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#carpet #go #go away #hoped #illness

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#between #choose #conventional #down #i

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#deliver #determined #effort #hawk #i