#ge

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#dungeon #heart #inexorable #jailer #other

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. ↗

— Colin Hay

#found #hard #i #just #over

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows. ↗

— Colin Hay

#better #doing #drink #drinking #getting

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' ↗

— Colin Hay

#because #began #boring #changed #changes

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#give me #hamburger #hold #i #lawsuit

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. ↗

— Bill Hayden

#depend #languages #largely #support #underlying

I was very adept at acquiring languages. ↗

— Anna Held

#adept #i #languages #very

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#community #geography #i #interests #nor

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism