#nic

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#band #beauty #core #different #exploring

Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice? ↗

— Valerie Martin

#death #god #grief #injustice #religion

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#communicating #i #i am #interested #many

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agriculture #before #capital #company #division

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

#gambling #most #pleasant #quickest #roads

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#area #away #become #been #bit

I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff. ↗

— Franka Potente

#cool #depp #fault #guy #him

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#actually #because #being #expected #got

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#history #love #pessimism #truth #art