We are taught to think ourselves ugly. Eyes are an assaulted sense. We are taught to behave by spankings and whippings. Touch is an assaulted sense. We are taught we should not smell, or we smell wrong. Smell is an assaulted sense. We listen to songs that call us 'hos and tell us how to give blow jobs. Hearing is an assaulted sense. Taste, not so much.
~ Alice Randall
I just don't— Ronan. My ears are bleeding!Ronan turned down the music.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.
~ Jason Aldean
It is a second-generation Seattle-scene record label; all of its artists are young people who came to Seattle after they graduated college in search of the legendary Seattle music scene and discovered that it didn't really exist--it was just a couple of dozen guys who sat around playing guitar in one another's basements--and so who were basically forced to choose between going home in ignominy or fabricating the Seattle Music scene of their imagination from whole cloth. This led to the establishment of any number of small clubs, and the foundation of many bands, that were not rooted in any kind of authentic reality whatsoever but merely reflected the dreams and aspiration of pan-global young adults who had flocked to Seattle on the same chimera hunt.
~ Neal Stephenson
I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.
~ C.b. Cook
Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.
~ Oliver Markus
Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.
~ Keith Richards
Keith Richards on change—It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.
~ Jessica Pallington West
One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.
Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.
~ Michelle Franklin
Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward
~ Set It Off
A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.
~ Benny Bellamacina
I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert.
~ Linnea Gelland
I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.
~ Rachel Hartman
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.
~ George W. Bush
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
~ Terry Pratchett
What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
~ P.g. Wodehouse
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
~ George Best
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
~ Stanley Bing
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?
~ Vivian Arend
There’s no such thing as free kittens.
~ Brian P. Cleary
They do say money is the root of all evil.I thought that was supposed to be the love of money.There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.
~ Jamie O'neill
Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
~ Richard Russo
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
~ Louis Agassiz
(Regarding check-cashing places):It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.
~ Angela Nissel
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
~ Tim Wu
Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans
~ Novala Takemoto
When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.
~ Marnie Kay
Truth is like poetry.And most people fucking hate poetry.
~ Adam Mckay
If money is a curse, may God smite me with it, and may I never recover!
~ Fiddler On The Roof
Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.
~ Beatrice Fairfax
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
~ Vann Chow
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
He aimed at the lawyer's heart but missed it. It was a mistrial.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.
~ Amit Kalantri
Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine.
