#proof

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#could #fully #himself #i #never

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this. ↗

— Hans Frank

#executive #many #police #powerless #proofs

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#become #i #pope #proof

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#am #believer #eminem #firm #firm believer

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting! ↗

— David Sedaris

#brueghel #museums #proof #art

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes. ↗

— Idries Shah

#have-a-care #knowledge #proof #beauty

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#claudia #emily-giffin #love #love

I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions") ↗

— Michael Marshall Smith

#proofreading #change

When I started writing I was a sick teenaged fuck inside who partly thought I was the new Marquis de Sade, a body doomed to communicate with Satan who was us- ing my sickness as his home away from home, and there’s your proof. ↗

— Dennis Cooper

#sickness #writing #communication