#ding

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#found #good #holy #make #many

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#albums #deciding #had #hear #i

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#reading #strange

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting. ↗

— Paul Rand

#fit #ideas #interesting #job #make

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#aspects #bringing #came #divide #done

Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real, Unless you find the fine line...and erase it ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#happy #happy-endings #love #love-story #romance

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#becoming #child #ending #movie #movie star

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#change #coded #codes #heading #i

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#about #believe #elvis #elvis presley #his

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#knowledge #reading #life