#ali

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#disclosures #eyes #less #life #may

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#am #could #i #i am #i do

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #equality

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#home #identity #jewish #nationality #religion

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#feel #had #journalist #lot #people

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.' ↗

— David Fincher

#hated #lot #people

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#chosen #future #governor #his #john

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. ↗

— David Eagleman

#anything #building #composed #computational #consistency

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#comes #father #gentleness #how #i