#via

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#america #audience #been #came #fans

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. ↗

— Ville Valo

#away #been #best #cathartic #everyday

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#disaster #disasters #formula #never #relationship

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it. ↗

— Larry David

#afford #allergic #bad #caviar #certainly

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#back #bolivia #came #comfortable #comfortable talking

It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #octavia #posy #fact

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#caviar #champagne #dogs #had #hot

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#commercially #enable #films #i #kinds