#both

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#bothers #call #calling #doing #like

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#above #both #loses #people #principles

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ↗

— Rod Serling

#both #dancing #difficult #documentary #every

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#elements #healthy #life #necessary #order

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#darcy #elizabeth-bennet #love #union #love

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #outside

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#both #combines #hypothetical #literal #real

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#fear #pervasive #well

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! ↗

— Ansel Adams

#arts #both #camera #does #express