#rote

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#makes #men #protest #should #silence

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#i #i do #legacy #protect

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#chandler #committed #gave #murder #once

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#asked #been #before #both #brotherhood

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#called #ever #first #friend #friends

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet. ↗

— Paul Vixie

#disgraceful #electric #even #fences #grid

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#chorale #fostered #fourth #gets #helen

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#interesting #layer #most #nudity #off