#ali

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#captured #come #dodgers #force #happened

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#audrey hepburn #black-and-white #child #gritty #hepburn

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. ↗

— George Steiner

#event #every #honing #impact #individual

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ↗

— Stendhal

#first #historian #invent #qualification

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. ↗

— James Stephens

#finality #lumps #nothing #perfect #perfection

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#before #come #conduct #contact #did

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#destruction #faith #far #found #headlines

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #big #big star #films #goal

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#deputy #earth #god #illusions #important

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#both #both sides #common #divide #feel