#gin

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#challenging #forces #handling #material #you

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#blues #fat #god #guy #i

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. ↗

— Joel Coen

#actually #director #down #gas #having

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#attitudes #change #changing #complex #cultural

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ends #failure #fear #politics #usually

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. ↗

— Robert Collier

#ideas #mind #origin #riches #their

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ↗

— Robert Collier

#belonging #possession #see #them #things

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion