#verse

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#complete #did #ever #everything #figure

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ↗

— Frank Carson

#boot #car #engine #heard #into

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#known #universe #unknown

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#black holes #concepts #construction #elements #holes

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#case #either #i #i think #idea

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#enough #get #here #i #lived

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#creative #else #exist #expression #human

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true. ↗

— Richard Morris

#anything #be true #consider #difficult #discover

[Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities. ↗

— John le Carré

#life