#semblance

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#being #better #better person #deal #friends

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#make #melody #only #redundant #semblance

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#consists #differ #difference #knowing #resemblance

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#among #between #differ #difference #lies

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. ↗

— Ben Harper

#away #burn #find #make #only

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#antithesis #bear #being #between #ethics

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#anything #bear #because #find #guitar

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#democracy #dictator #elected #even #him