#sons

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time. ↗

— Matt Groening

#around #came #considered #controversial #else

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#after #anything #been #business #develop

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #full-moon #habits #harvests #life

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#depart #fall #god #great #leaf

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #life-lessons #outlook #perspective #progress

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#also #discussed #hard #hard work #importance

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. ↗

— Lisa Kogan

#life-lessons #people #life

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#done #gladly #god #grieve #rather

To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#anywhere #bit #county #four #give