#air

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#books #cavafy #dostoevsky #inspirational #stephen-fry

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. ↗

— Karl Rove

#al #been #broadcasts #certainly #danger

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. ↗

— Barry Watson

#being different #cowboys #dallas #different #earring

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#had #hairdo #high #high school #i

In fair weather prepare for foul. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#fair #foul #prepare #weather

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#after #chinese #dance #dancer #disappear

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bare #bare feet #delights #earth #feel

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#fresh #originality #pair #simply