#al

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#general #i #i think #important #people

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#any #area #arts #copying #creative

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#conception #emerges #glorious #however #longer

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #happen #history #kind #know

Women are always beautiful. ↗

— Ville Valo

#beautiful #women #women are

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#arrive #catalogue #connected #doing #dry

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

Do you have a truth of your own, Anton? Tell me, do you? Are you certain of it? Then believe it, not in my truth, not in Geser's. Believe in it and fight for it. If you have enough courage. If the idea doesn't make you shudder. What's bad about Dark freedom is not just that it's freedom from others. That's another explanation for little children. Dark freedom is first and foremost freedom from yourself, from your own conscience and your own soul. The moment you can't feel any pain in your chest—call for help. Only by then it'll be too late ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#convictions #freedom #semyon #truth #courage

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#both #comfortable #contrived #facebook #feel