#venti

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#convention #fool #greatest #man #misfortune

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#causation #i #prevention #started #work

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#anybody #black #black comedy #chinese #comedy

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brightest #fire #heaven #invention #muse

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. ↗

— Tom Shales

#albert einstein #attention #attention span #daffy #duck

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. ↗

— Clare Short

#dealing #discussion #finding #going #honest

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen. ↗

— Peter Tork

#bunch #celebrities #chance #coloured #connect

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#challenge #cinema #conventions #direct #every

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest