#backs

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#among #books #comes #drawbacks #exercise

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#backs #life #like #make #our

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

#america #awake #backs #body #boldness

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#backs #brings #curiosity #doing #everything

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage! ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#backstage #because #close #getting #i

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#backstage #been #corridors #get #hang

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#am #backside #bigots #black #enjoying

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#comebacks #downs #series #ups #ups and downs

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even