#session

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. ↗

— Alan Davies

#i #inclined #linger #magazine #more

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#lot #normal #played #real #sessions

Without obsession, life is nothing. ↗

— John Waters

#nothing #obsession #without

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#culture #degree #developed #disney #empire

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #day #i #i do #into

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#could #i #just #musically #never

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#became #comfortable #did #each #else

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her