Soundsystem Quotes

#1. The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.

Rob Sheffield

#2. I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

Kode9

#3. A consequence of boredom is that a man is forced to look either to the future or the past, or sideways into his imagination.

Mark Lawrence

#4. The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Ron Davies

#5. In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine).

Peter Kreeft

#6. Always carry through an attack when you have started it.

Oswald Boelcke

#7. I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

Michael Sandel

#8. Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

G. M. Trevelyan

#9. Right. Because he seemed like such a normal kid. And he is a normal kid, he is just what you'd expect a baseline male child to be like if Darth Vader were his doting father.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#10. If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.

Margaret Atwood

#11. I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

#13. The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#14. English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Deborah Harkness

#15. It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.

Mervyn Peake

#16. We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

Robert Wright

#17. And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing.
Each of us knowing the other.

Patrick Ness