#ck

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. ↗

— Alex Grey

#alive #aspect #being #body #emotions

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint. ↗

— George Grey

#brilliantly #character #constantly #disappeared #eastern

If the Palestinian people really wish to decide that they will battle to the very end to prevent partition or annexation of even an inch of their ancestral soil, then I have to concede that that is their right. I even think that a sixty-year rather botched experiment in marginal quasi-statehood is something that the Jewish people could consider abandoning. It represents barely an instant in our drawn-out and arduous history, and it's already been agreed even by the heirs of Ze'ev Jabotinsky that the whole scheme is unrealizable in 'Judaea and Samaria,' let alone in Gaza or Sinai. But it's flat-out intolerable to be solicited to endorse a side-by-side Palestinian homeland and then to discover that there are sinuous two-faced apologists explaining away the suicide-murder of Jewish civilians in Tel Aviv, a city which would be part of a Jewish state or community under any conceivable 'solution.' There's that word again... ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#final-solution #gaza #israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jews

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. ↗

— John Grierson

#done #having #imperative #manipulation #masses

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#film #find #guess #i #lucky

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#nothing #obnoxious #other #people

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#characters #cracks #excited #friends #how

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse. ↗

— Merv Griffin

#las #las vegas #like #mickey #mickey mouse

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#acknowledged #am #depicting #fill #folks

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#boards #fill #get #i #less