All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.
Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass. , to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.
Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made - when it became obvious that the one male he wanted above all others was never, ever going to be with him.