#bell

I refuse to settle for what you call reality. ↗

— Solange nicole

#imagination #life #reality #rebellion #solange

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#light #love #the-witch-of-portobello #wonders #inspirational

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#hope #hopeful #inspirational #rebellion #rebellious

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back! ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#rebellion #terrorism #freedom

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#beauty

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#anyone #bell #curve #little #little money

I just find things that work and embellish them. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#find #i #just #them #things

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#being #man #poetry #rebellion

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#confused #i #made #mistakes #out