#eric

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#drunk #leprechaun #imagination

The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain. Some of its people might yet be living, and Ada wondered how often they remembered this lonesome place, now still as a held breath. Whatever word they had called it would soon be numbered among the names of things which have not been passed down to us and are exiled from our memories. She doubted that its people, even in the last days, had ever looked ahead and imagined loss so total and so soon. they had not foreseen a near time when theirs would be another world filled with other people whose mouths would speak other words, whose sleep would be eased or troubled with other dreams, whose prayers would be offered up to other gods. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#dreams

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world. ↗

— Louis Owens

#native-american #inspirational

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#inauguration #inspiration #inspirational

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anyone #back #get #government #i

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#american #american people #chance #good #like

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#audacity #creativity #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspiration #instrumentality

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#always #american #apple #apple pie #con

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#age #american #american dream #because #dream