#ems

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #bear #bewildered #bizarre #design

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#carpet #go #go away #hoped #illness

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#above #created #equal #men #only

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important. ↗

— Albert Finney

#doing #feel #get #great #great qualities

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#bit #britain #contemporary #endlessly #fascinating

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. ↗

— Roy Cohn

#defeat #get #how #i #out

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#good #little #poetry #political #seems

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#back #energy #food #fun #get

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#because #call #exposing #finding #gay