#times

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#good #live #lives #such #times

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#clever #go #head #his #lord

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#clever #go #head #his #sometimes

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as 'duck.' One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy—they wouldn't tell me the breed—but then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadn't seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dog-meat #dogs #famine #hotels #korean-cuisine

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #business #caught #certainly #company

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary. ↗

— Bjork

#bit #boring #days #doing #energy

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#accounts #actually #computers #email #few

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. ↗

— Larry Wilcox

#along #another #back #beach #being

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over. ↗

— Jack Wild

#dead #gone #i #look #now

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke. ↗

— Alex Winter

#because #commercials #find #funny #good