#ang

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#anything #become #knowing #never #page

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world? ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#cared #change #change the world #deep #deep way

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. ↗

— Mathew Brady

#changed #course #ever #i #know

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#basic principles #change #current #darn #differ

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. ↗

— Chris Evert

#being #being famous #dangerous #famous #formed

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#freckles #had #i #kisses #many

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know? ↗

— Paul Walker

#coast #east #east coast #gangster #know

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #been #brown #certain #certain way