#gr

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#before #beginning #colour #endless #gradations

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. ↗

— David Brainerd

#always #design #faithfully #glorify #god

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#colours #crawling #create #eye #field

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#greatest #making #mind #mistakes #talent

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#am #better #community #father #great

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. ↗

— Jo Brand

#friends #great #great people #i #many

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#by the time #emotionally #grappling #i #make

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #been #cliched #convenient #gay