“I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.” WayFeelsWellsSaidPlayRememberGuyAskingCompetitionHeyJagger Author:Bobby Vinton
“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage” ShouldHumansWellsReasonDealsAskingAppealsAestheticBondageHuman Bondage Book:Of Human Bondage Source: Of Human Bondage
“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.” WellsArtHardArtistOrderSoundSpaceWindAskingBeastSensibilityLitMaximumRumorGalleryTraction Author:Jerry Saltz
“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.” WritingWellsSeaResearchSittingLettersAskingRewardsMarinePonderingTurtlesStanleySea Turtle Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles
“I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"” PeopleIfsWorldWellsEnoughVisionProudSickAskingAimFavouriteBe ProudDemographicsSo SickFavourite Things Author:Ricky Gervais
“I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.” MenWorldBelieveWellsI CanProblemNumbersHeardShareStreetsThis WorldBattleEqualSolutionsAskingCornersStrangerGreat MenStationsDislikeDriftingAsking QuestionsAversionRailwayStreet CornersRailway Station Book:The Benchley Roundup Source: The Benchley Roundup