#era

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#everybody #general #goes #high #high point

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ↗

— Hannah More

#drunk #getting #getting drunk #going #like

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#alive #arts #average #bodies #body

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deliberately #great #i #important #last

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#book #consider #copy #even #gave

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ↗

— John Gunther

#deliberately #founded #good #good idea #idea

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#comfortable #go #grocery #grocery shopping #having

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#am #any #cruelty #dominance #i