#rest

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together. ↗

— John Pearson

#ancient #bringing #else #feet #foot

I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore. ↗

— Eric Avery

#being #done #felt #had #i

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#find #going #joining #jumping #kids

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethics #even #expansive #intoxication #new

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know. ↗

— Morena Baccarin

#earth #fascination #interested #know #life

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#accomplish #achieving #advocating #candidates #conflicting

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. ↗

— Albert Barnes

#bible #designed #desire #enough #eternal

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#body #comedy #gravity #great #how

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. ↗

— Lake Bell

#am #feign #i #i am #i think