#so

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#bring #engineer #mike #recorded #songs

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#intelligence

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. ↗

— Marc Davis

#father #something

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge! ↗

— Adam Savage

#fridge #fuel #get #gotta #i

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#been #could #i #late #me

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.' ↗

— Ben Savage

#drink #girl #go #i #like

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ↗

— Robert Frost

#democrat #father #his #mother #republican

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#apparently #deeply #emotional #heterosexuals #homosexual

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#courage #even #live #sometimes