Jules Shear quote: "Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo."

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in...
JULES SHEAR

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
JULES SHEAR

You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one...
JULES SHEAR

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
JULES SHEAR

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day ou...
JULES SHEAR

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
JULES SHEAR

Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which ...
EMMETT SHEAR

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.
CLAUDIA SHEAR

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or i...
EMMETT SHEAR

Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural...
EMMETT SHEAR

There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly...
GRAHAM SHEAR

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
MARIE SHEAR

The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watc...
EMMETT SHEAR

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of X...
EMMETT SHEAR

There is no truth whatever in these allegations.
GRAHAM SHEAR

These proceedings will be vigorously and actively pursued.
GRAHAM SHEAR

This (decision) sends entirely the wrong message. English football have lost the message that a foot...
GRAHAM SHEAR

The normal course is to exhaust the appropriate forums and those in these circumstances would be app...
GRAHAM SHEAR

We will follow the appeal process and consider the appropriate forums for that appeal process,
GRAHAM SHEAR

why footballers cannot speak to prospective future employers.
GRAHAM SHEAR

Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration f...
GRAHAM SHEAR

An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport is very likely.
GRAHAM SHEAR

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot...
EMMETT SHEAR

I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and...
EMMETT SHEAR

There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't ...
EMMETT SHEAR

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
JULES RENARD

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads...
JULES RENARD

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
JULES RENARD

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNE

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
JULES ORMONT

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
JULES RENARD

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
JULES RENARD

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
JULES VERNE

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
JULES RENARD

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
JULES RENARD

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, preposs...
JULES FEIFFER

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open t...
JULES RENARD

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
JULES MICHELET

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was s...
JULES FEIFFER

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
JULES RENARD

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
JULES RENARD

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
JULES RENARD

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
JULES RENARD

Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
JULES FAVRE

School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. ...American classrooms, like...
JULES HENRY

Fame is a constant effort
JULES RENARD

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
JULES RENARD

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead...
JULES RENARD

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions
JULES MICHELET

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
JULES RENARD

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
JULES RENARD

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
JULES RENARD

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
JULES RENARD

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
JULES RENARD

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
JULES RENARD

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disor...
JULES VERNE

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinar...
JULES VERNE

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
JULES FEIFFER

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...
JULES VERNE

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming t...
JULES VERNE

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a c...
JULES ASNER

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
JULES VERNE

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
JULES RENARD

The bourgeois are other people.
JULES RENARD

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the de...
JULES RENARD

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
JULES VERNE

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
JULES RENARD

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...
JULES VERNE

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
JULES RENARD

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder,...
JULES VERNE

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNE

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee...
JULES VERNE

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians...
JULES VERNE

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is no...
JULES VERNE

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in...
JULES VERNE

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her sever...
JULES VERNE

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
JULES RENARD

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamble...
JULES VERNE

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply im...
JULES VERNE

The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing bu...
JULES VERNE

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth an...
JULES VERNE

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to it...
JULES VERNE

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...
JULES VERNE

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cau...
JULES VERNE

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNE

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER

I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER

I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear...
JULES VERNE

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
JULES RENARD

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
JULES RENARD

I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you wil...
JULES ORMONT

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
JULES RENARD

Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Usi...
JULES CARLYSLE

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
JULES COMBARIEU

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though i...
JULES FEIFFER

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNE

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD

Words are the small change of thought.
JULES RENARD

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
JULES FEIFFER

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
JULES RENARD

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color...
JULES FEIFFER

I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's...
JULES FEIFFER

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
JULES FEIFFER

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they'...
JULES FEIFFER

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
JULES FEIFFER

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
JULES RENARD

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you...
JULES RENARD

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others
JULES RENARD

This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I ...
JULES VERNE

Could you imagine the OUTRAGE that would ensue if an artist thanked Allah or Zeus for their Grammy A...
JULES CARLYSLE

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
JULES VERNE

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this...
JULES VERNE

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
JULES VERNE

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His in...
JULES VERNE

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by co...
JULES VERNE

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody
JULES RENARD

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies b...
JULES VERNE

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like w...
JULES VERNE

It turned out that the VIN [vehicle identification number] on the contract was off by one digit.
JULES PAPP

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...
JULES VERNE

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...
JULES VERNE

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not ye...
JULES VERNE

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...
JULES VERNE

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the bra...
JULES VERNE

When the US sneezes, Canada says, “gesundheit.”
JULES CARLYSLE

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
JULES RENARD

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNE

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
JULES VERNE

The world is an enormous injustice.
JULES ROMAINS

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be...
JULES RENARD

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
JULES RENARD

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it
JULES RENARD

He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apart...
JULES VERNE

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
JULES RENARD

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right
JULES RENARD

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
JULES RENARD

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
JULES RENARD

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
JULES RENARD

One's native land! There should one live! There die!
JULES VERNE

A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
JULES FEIFFER

At 16 I was stupid, confused, . . . and indecisive. At 21 I was wise, self-confident, . . . and asse...
JULES FEIFFER

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's op...
JULES FEIFFER

I've backed off cliffs all of my career. The best things I've done I've backed into. I never underst...
JULES FEIFFER

I love doing it and until I stop loving it, this is what I do. I loved writing for the theater for 2...
JULES FEIFFER

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into...
JULES VERNE

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
JULES VERNE

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
JULES VERNE

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
JULES RENARD

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
JULES RENARD

Ah! Pauvre ami, comme il m'aimait!
JULES MASSENET

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them ones...
JULES RENARD

A little drowsing cat is an image of a perfect beatitude
JULES CHAMPFLEURY

Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? H...
JULES VERNE

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more
JULES RENARD

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of ...
JULES RENARD

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries
JULES RENARD

We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life.
JULES RENARD

Words are the small change of thought
JULES RENARD

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

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