#eat

Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#romance #war #death

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness. ↗

— Jill Bialosky

#death #died-too-young #stars #suicide #death

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great! ↗

— Michael Bay

#directing #great #job #like #more

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. ↗

— Andre Bazin

#corruption #create #does #eternity #photography

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#basically #because #behind #best #budget

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #beauty

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#create #into #new #people #place

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#death #due #felt #fullest #i

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#memory #death