#cal

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp. ↗

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

#science

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#bible #calls #century #into #move

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#armageddon #darkness #death #death

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysical #philosophy #metaphysics

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#attitude

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#apocalypse

Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#dystopia #apocalypse

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#call #done #extremely #gross-out #i

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#historical-fiction