#al

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done. ↗

— Saul Williams

#considered #done #ever #exactly #gone

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK. ↗

— Saul Williams

#been #coming #i #inspired #lot

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#expression #form #hands #inner #inner self

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#been #diversification #energy #energy security #point

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky. ↗

— Serena Williams

#body #doing #fit #get #i

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#back #bank #called #i #just

But I think we need the international market. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#i think #international #market #need #think

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#commercialism #feeling #hero #personal #personal feeling

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:) "[W]hile we perceive ... the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone. We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ... We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... and also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#empowerment #freedom #friendship #independence #love