#antics

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#semantics #suspicion #humor

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#feminists #rest #semantics

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #connect #general #i #keats

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#exhibits #labels #languages #meanings #museum

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#bored #created #even #god #immensely

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #basketball #cameras #come #control

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#feelings #galt-niederhoffer #life #spontaneity #summer

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#chocolate #chocolate-cake #connotations #food #french