#ear

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#elsewhere #escapes #human #human race #iniquity

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#care #characters #done #dreamt #even

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #how #i #i am #i have learned

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#child #forever #give #us #will

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#ill #important #important thing #lose #most

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#every #govern #how #learn #state

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. ↗

— John Lennon

#beatles #biggest #earth #fact #make

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#i #ringing #silent #skull

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy