#elf

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#difficult #difficult thing #distance #holding #how

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. ↗

— Betty Carter

#believe #black #care #confidence #culture

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#both #eye #fact #forms #fraction

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Willa Cather

#down #gets #great #itself #last

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #beyond #end #express #eyes

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference. ↗

— Hollie Cavanagh

#any #break-up #dance #difference #emotion

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. ↗

— Edgar Cayce

#opportunity #prepared #presents #thing #use

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#almost #bluegrass #comedy #different #different styles

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space. ↗

— Roger B. Chaffee

#cleaner #eventually #everyone #giving #god