#were

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#big #bit #brought #certain #certain way

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#bit #machine #modern #noise #really

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#began #go #impact #mad #might

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#military #most #spent #under #were

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#afford #around #back #cartoons #coming

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost. ↗

— James Collins

#blades #class #cost #every #high

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did. ↗

— Lily Collins

#back #boulevard #decided #did #driving

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent. ↗

— John Connally

#early sixties #sixties #strong #virulent #were

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories