#thing

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#everybody #had #having #i #leotards

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #before #else #language #love

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #because #bores #down #else

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #creation #emotion #everything #fleeting

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#nothing #true

Nobody does anything for one reason. ↗

— Russell Banks

#does #nobody #reason

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dog #earth #love #love yourself #loves

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. ↗

— Jim Davis

#cat #condition #convincing #could #create

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even