#tending

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#audience #deliver #few #gifted #like

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. ↗

— Isaac Butt

#attending #birth #buried #date #death

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#any #attending #club #clubs #discussions

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#armies #becomes #between #blind #command

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such. ↗

— Roy Moore

#gives #god #government #history #indeed

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. ↗

— John Ritter

#be yourself #because #doing #grew #i

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#grow #horrifying #occasionally #older #pants

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around. ↗

— Rider Strong

#front #green #green screen #how #jumping

Being is like pretending. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#like #pretending