#dom

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#i #me #move #moved #movie

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#became #being #chronically #control #could

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#cannot #freedom #given #only #taken

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#enjoy #freedom #glad #i #i am

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. ↗

— Colin Firth

#haunting #i #i think #margins #mind

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#calls #common #common sense #degree #sense

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#dominate #emotions #heavily #other #pay

Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. At Rouen, he said, he had never had any desire to go and see a Paris company at the theatre. He couldn't swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and was unable to explain a riding term she came across in a novel one day. Wheras a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you in all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing. He thought she was unhappy; and she hated him for that placid immobility, that stolid serenity of his, for that very happiness which she herself brought him. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#contentment #static #dreams

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#health #known #like #lost #seldom

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#dumb #heard #i #life #most