#eyed

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#already #am #areas #been #explorer

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like. ↗

— Cher

#because #blond #blue-eyed #everything #girl

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #bent #emperors #follow #kings

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#king #kingdom #man #one-eyed

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blind #job #kingdom #man #one-eyed

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #gods #guilt #i #must

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound. ↗

— Terry Gross

#confident #conveyed #form #how #i

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. ↗

— George Orwell

#classes #country #foreign #foreign country #going