#standing

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#cd #digital #european #friends #hollywood

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War. ↗

— Ken Burns

#am #america #called #civil #civil war

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#chair #crappy #dentist #i #i can

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. ↗

— Tim Burton

#always #been #confused #had #i

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#brain #consider #faith #fragile #hope

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have. ↗

— Vince Cable

#british #class #companies #i #job

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. ↗

— Vince Cable

#been #binge #britain #consumer #driven

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#imagination #matter #part #poor #understanding