#ale

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#book #courts #female #forever #justice

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made. ↗

— Heather Graham

#driven #female #films #i #i wish

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#being #called #extreme #had #humans

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#direction #everybody #gets #having #mind

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#family #go #going #gone #halen

These months drive us to listen within. ↗

— Charol Messenger

#futurist #mayan-calendar #new-cosmic-age #new-humanity #nostradamus

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#final #first #first step #gaza #historic

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#million #palestinian #palestinian people #people #refugees