Discs Quotes - Page 3

• I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

  Liza Minnelli

  Two, Knees, Hips

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Air, Majesty, Compression

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

  Jack Paar

  Cities, Kansas City, Flying

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• It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Moon, Mind

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• I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.

  Ralph Strangis

  Football, Brother, Jobs

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• A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

  Steve Weinstein

  Player, Cds, Age

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• And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

  Johnny Depp

  Moving, Technology, Player

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Player, Europe, Tennis

  "Boris Kodjoe Interview UNDERCOVERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

  Koko Taylor

  Kings, Years, Play

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.

  John Lydon

  Wall, House, Trying

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• Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Men, Missing

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

  Terry Pratchett

  Atheist, Atheism, Rincewind

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.259, Random House

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• The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.' " In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

  Eric Weiner

  Wall, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humble, Men, Thinking

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.242, Random House

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• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Eye, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 20), 1895.

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• Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc.

  Drake

  Humble, Cocky, Buzz

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• See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Sky, Heaven, Floating

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• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

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• maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Country, Couple, Ignorance

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• The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies and nebulae, and thinking they were not as wide as the distances between people. In the study Claudia sensed them, in the sparks and crackles on the screen. In the prison, Attia dreamt of them, She sat curled on the hard chair, Rix repacking his hidden pockets obsessively with coins and glass discs and hidden handkerchiefs. A single spark flickered deep in the coin Keiro spun and caught, spun and caught.

  Catherine Fisher

  Stars, Distance, Thinking

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• The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Eggs, Ideas

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

  John Lydon

  Song, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

  Terence McKenna

  Sky, Waiting, Forever

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• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  Zack Snyder

  Dog, Bird, Owl

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2010.

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