#thou

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#aspect #aspects #certain #confer #dream

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#dogs #i #i love #imagine #license

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#dancing #did #even #ever #experience

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. ↗

— Rae Dawn Chong

#even #him #man #off #seduce

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#any #done #granted #human #human life

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#device #does #even #everyone #god

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#against #chemical #courageous #does #enough