#ought

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#anything #done #gonna #i #kinds

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#meditation #nature #practice #spirit #thought

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ↗

— Glenn Miller

#else #had #hell #i #ideas

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. ↗

— Moby

#college #community #community college #i #life

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ↗

— Dwight Morrow

#blame #credit #drought #must #opponents

What God hath wrought? ↗

— Samuel Morse

#god hath #hath #wrought

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out. ↗

— Rachel Perry

#chest #hair #him #his #i

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#fought #made #mistake #our #representation

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gentle #inspires #thoughts