#ashes

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. ↗

— Alan Alda

#angry #angry person #flashes #get #i

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#away #dust #everyday #everyday life #life

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#ashes #burns #cigar #comes #flips

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

Music washes away the dust of every day life. ↗

— Art Blakey

#day #dust #every #every day #life

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes. ↗

— Ian Botham

#battling #countries #exciting #more #nothing

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion