#ay

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#appeal #continue #hear #her #i

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. ↗

— John Fowles

#hitler #tragedy #war #courage

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. ↗

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

#kindness #ye-weary-wayfarer #courage

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#certain #certain ways #ideas #movies #notions

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#art #days #devote #energies #himself

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable. ↗

— Julian Glover

#big #comes #day #doing #done

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#almost #always #amazing #amazing things #childhoods

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#half #i #just #money #only

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#dreams #language #mean #say

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#ever #fire #great #hearts #himself