#rote

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children. ↗

— Tim Allen

#am #around #children #drive #get

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#been #century #children #courageous #fearless

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birds #breeds #commonly #existence #fall

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#done #first #i #million #never

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#end #entire #even #family #had

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. ↗

— John Acton

#assurance #authority #believes #custom #doing

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#know #last #law #lot #out

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cbs #fight #fought #hard #important

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. ↗

— Mose Allison

#old #sang #songs #wrote #years