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“If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.”
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“Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other’s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.”
Source : Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press
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“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”
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“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”
Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”
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“But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.”
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“I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.”
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“If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.”
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“One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.”
Source : "Q&A with Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman". Interview with James Temple, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2011.