#lon

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home. ↗

— Bob Lemon

#bad #bad days #bar #days #field

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#category #causes #classes #despair #does

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man. ↗

— John Lennon

#hair #how #i #long #man

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. ↗

— John Lennon

#bruce springsteen #decide #god #god help #help

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#background #been #being #belongs #community

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#fine #fine thing #gap #helping #into

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#always #because #been #considered #going

I like where I live here, in London. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#i #like #live #london #where

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#folks #fringe #get #getting #harder

At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments passing, but then it grew faster as it approached, until it raced past them faster than he could blink, and they were in twilight... For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#beautiful #nature #tower-of-babylon #beauty