#things

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#happily #i #interest #life #married

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#discuss #friends #friendship #longer #measure

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#friendship #most #offers #supports #tangible

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself. ↗

— Edie Falco

#complicated #cut #difficult #fame #fame thing

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to. ↗

— Edie Falco

#hard #me #notice #noticing #people

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing. ↗

— Edie Falco

#argument #because #been #cold #did

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. ↗

— David Brin

#attracted #attracts #corrupts #more #other

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#back #behind #bjorn #day #definitely