#mate

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#drawing #hand #i #make #material

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. ↗

— James Hilton

#any #comes #cost #counting #does

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Homer

#friend #great #great man #intimate #man

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#his #marks #material #pain #power

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. ↗

— Gerald W. Johnson

#demand #heroes #materials #none #out

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#could #develop #ease #even #extent

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #climate #climate change #countries #development

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#believed #education #faith #great #great faith

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#country #determine #die #going #got