#ass

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#arouses #else #hope #nothing #passion

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that. ↗

— Joan Collins

#class #composition #english #essays #first

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#disposal #each #elastic #feel #fills

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. ↗

— Sean Connery

#else #face #good #hitchcock #i

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#approached #assembly #capable #destroyed #enemy