#eat

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#roarke #death

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#artist #expression #great #great art #his

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#greatest #growing #growing up #i #learned

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#chooses #compass #country #country music #cowboy

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ↗

— Horace

#hut #impartial #kings #knocks #pale

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. ↗

— Horace

#friend #great #great man #man #never

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River) ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#shell-shocked #survivors #the-walking-dead #death