#selves

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#become #certain #certain level #day #get

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#emergencies #equip #expense #joy #life

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #beyond #bounds #carried #deeply

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complexion #conquest #different #earth #flatter

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves. ↗

— Tim Conway

#broad #burned #commercial #fun #ground

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#everyone #fun #having #having fun #house

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#curl #democrats #europeans #hate #indiana

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#film #film directors #interested #other #rare