#edge

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#holds #knowledge #life #me #my life

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#billy #certainty #comes #confidence #edges

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#henceforth #knowledge #leaves #nations #tree

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#am #certain #child #deal #enter

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#like #look #persons #pious #some

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #am #away #been #blown

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#been #blessed #everyone #forbidden #general

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#carried #conspiracies #hijacked #law #party