#tin

Sunlight is painting. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#sunlight

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows. ↗

— Colin Hay

#better #doing #drink #drinking #getting

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#acoustic guitar #certain #certain ways #comfortable #feel

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it. ↗

— Colin Hay

#bunch #exactly #how #intentions #me

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through. ↗

— Colin Hay

#cut #difficult #frustrating #just #listening

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#complete #dependence #fact #freedom #generation

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#give #go #i #keep #like

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#any #awakening #believe #best #discover