#because

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#get #justice #might #never #pray

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#because #before #digging #end #end of the tunnel

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #love

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#different #i #laugh #me #same

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience. ↗

— Harold Budd

#because #control #fine #i #like

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#better #drums #get #getting #getting better

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

I dance because it makes me want to explode. ↗

— Bill Evans

#dance #explode #i #makes #me