#end

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too ↗

— Saul Bellow

#age

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians. ↗

— David Zucker

#attendant #because #comedians #gas #gas station

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#enduring #strength #strength-through-adversity #willpower #courage

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#endeavors #great #necessary #passion #searches

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#charm #electrified #i #i am #over

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #equality #experience #freedom #gender

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#basically #chapter #come #end #lot