#all

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#dark #earth #hall #heaven #her

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#any #chance #done #fun #guess

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#annihilation #confront #danger #deadly #fall

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. ↗

— David Bowie

#ago #articulate #comes #does #explaining

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ↗

— David Bowie

#absolute #challenging #confront #confrontation #corpse

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #anything #artist #bit #challenge

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. ↗

— David Bowie

#allowed #got #guy #had #him

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#first #had #i #invention #made

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. ↗

— David Bowie

#cliches #god #hell #i #life