#uf

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#band #because #father #had #jobs

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. ↗

— James Cromwell

#delusional #factory #farm #hypocritical #opposed

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#flavor #instant #never #peel #sex

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants. ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#specialization #spirit #warren-buffett #age

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house. ↗

— Kaley Cuoco

#actually #amazing #been #business #childhood

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#called #certainly #changed #considered #could

The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night. ↗

— Grace Darling

#during #heard #night #part #remaining

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff. ↗

— Keith David

#history #i #mean #some #stuff