#angel

Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows... ↗

— Yukiru Sugisaki

#art

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti] ↗

— Irving Stone

#artist #michelangelo #art

I had this guy’s file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.” Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. “Did you say Desperado?” I couldn’t stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. “Yeah,” the Director confirmed. “He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin.” I was still laughing. “’Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #humor #joseph-carter #keepers

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#affiliated #angeles #close #congregation #consider

If the bards of old the true has told The sirens have raven hair. But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#sirens #art

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles. ↗

— Dan Quisenberry

#hit #jackson #los #los angeles #me

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way. ↗

— Della Reese

#am #angels #been #come #could

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. ↗

— Anne Rice

#been #christian #essence #evangelists #form

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#die #disgust #ecstasy #man #pigs