#urns

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns #maps

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. ↗

— Felix Adler

#altar #burns #ethical #fire #itself

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ↗

— Edward Albee

#bad #define #fact #good #good writer

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#leads #our #poetry #rational #refreshed

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#down #editor #every #however #just

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#i #inward #ivory #just #live

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#everything #manure #policy #public #public policy

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#day #down #each #earth #go

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#audience #back #call #commercial #decent