#nic

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#canvas #destroy #down #everyone #feel

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #earners #economic #history #led

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#became #being #chronically #control #could

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#chocolates #communicating #communication #drinks #establish

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#apart #day #i #i do #idea

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#am #good #hoodwink #i #i am

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#bulb #doctor #felt #him #i

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#age #being #change #ever #many