#so

I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. ↗

— Frank Iero

#also #back #band #called #ever

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. ↗

— Neil Innes

#goes #gorilla #i #mean #our

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-and-living #philosophy #vastness #west #western

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#georgia #humor #southern #education

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#inside #lots #national #nations #own

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#defeat #direct #direct experience #draft #end

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

Isolation is a big part of songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#isolation #part #songwriting

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#censorship #cervantes #don quixote #good #had

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. ↗

— Helge Ingstad

#buildings #clear #fishermen #houses #indian