#tone

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop. ↗

— Steve Brown

#between #cheap #cross #know #pop

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#enema #first #hot #lead #stone

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead. ↗

— Yul Brynner

#arrived #because #buried #dead #feel

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#ancestry #emotional #feel #get #i

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? ↗

— David Byrne

#byrne #david #here #lies #suit

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#creating #crystals #guide #i #me

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. ↗

— Lord Byron

#beginning #necessity #sense

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. ↗

— Michael Caine

#because #get #girl #going #got

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#heart #never #own #proud #sorrow