#rio

You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality. ↗

— Amy Irving

#brazilians #comfortable #face #feel #food

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#i #joined #never #patriotic #reasons

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#cynical #felt #friends #had #i

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#bob #bob dylan #cohen #dylan #friends

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#also #article #attorney #been #coming

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

I thought 'God, what have I done?'... I realized I would be in serious trouble. I thought the best way out of the mess was to make sure she could not tell anybody. ↗

— Peter Sutcliffe

#best #best way #could #done #god

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#easier #found #funny #i #serious