#stance

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#draining #drop #end #food #food network

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth. ↗

— Amy Ray

#big #content #depth #everything #facebook

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#bad #cannot #circumstances #exists #fact

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#circumstances #come #essence #ethnicity #great

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #everyone #for the people #mean #only

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive. ↗

— Bob Saget

#comedians #enough #enough people #everyone #how

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#circumstances #easy #grain #grain of sand #made

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances