#rang

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls. ↗

— Zayn Malik

#back #because #big #big change #change

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. ↗

— John Mayer

#everybody #going #just #my own #own

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#big city #city #companionship #early #friendship

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#george #good #lush #martin #sort

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#anyway #death #enough #get #got

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#arrangements #back #combination #composed #few

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age. ↗

— John Legend

#also #amazing #around #artists #emotional