#be

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work. ↗

— Steve Burns

#also #become #children #i #idea

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said. ↗

— Robert Evans

#early #early age #easiest #easiest thing #i

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. ↗

— Robert Evans

#brown #change #during #graduated #had

From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventures, the great passions real life will never give us. The lies of literature become truths through us, the readers transformed, infected with longings and, through the fault of fiction, permanently questioning a mediocre reality. Sorcery, when literature offers us the hope of having what we do not have, being what we are not, acceding to that impossible existence where like pagan gods we feel mortal and eternal at the same time, that introduces into our spirits non-conformity and rebellion, which are behind all the heroic deeds that have contributed to the reduction of violence in human relationships. Reducing violence, not ending it. Because ours will always be, fortunately, an unfinished story. That is why we have to continue dreaming, reading, and writing, the most effective way we have found to alleviate our mortal condition, to defeat the corrosion of time, and to transform the impossible into possibility. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction #nobel-prize #reading #dreams

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#childhood #continue #different #different shapes #giant

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#die #how #human #human beings #i

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#big #big city #boy #city #country

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else. ↗

— James Brady

#beautiful #beautiful people #clear #else #had

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ↗

— Edward Everett

#army #better #liberty #safeguard #standing