#w

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. ↗

— Larry Elder

#behavior #charity #corporate #distorts #less

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#cast #geniuses #new #roads #stones

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#hallway #hang #high #high school #him

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#bus #every #five #half #hour

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#because #british #enjoy #i #rule

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#honour #long #prevails #sinks #where

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ↗

— George Eliot

#die #grass #grow #had #hearing

On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

#called #daniel #day #days #father

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#bell #during #everybody #everything #fault

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#always #asked #because #before #decided