#ak

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom. ↗

— Rumer Godden

#bloom #books #carpet #gives #life

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#factory #farming #greed #i #landscape

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#best #craft #hard #hardest #hone

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard. ↗

— Julie Gold

#anyone #calling #hard #living #make

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable. ↗

— David Tudor

#disposable #loudspeakers #made #should

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#antagonism #being #child #directed #each

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#accused #argument #because #disagrees #free

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#grass #i #imagination #make #used

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#never #never take #oath #people #solemn

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#any #anyone #clothes #come #down