#gr

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me. ↗

— Ramsay Burt

#ballet #dance #experimental #gender #progressive

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost. ↗

— Nan Goldin

#loss #lost-love #photography #art

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace. ↗

— Richard Hell

#grace #ludwig-wittgensten #smart #imagination

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#amazing #amazing people #anyone #area #around

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#regret #retrospect #inspirational

Since Thami had the Arab's utter incomprehension of the meaning of pornography, he imagined that the police had placed the ban on obscene films because these infringed upon Christian doctrine at certain specific points, in which case any Christian might be expected to show interest, if only to disapprove. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#pornography #imagination

A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now,' and Gus said, 'This is wonderful news you want to hear,' and I asked him, 'Fine, what is it?' and he said, 'You are going to live a good long life filled with great and terrible moments you cannot even imagine yet! ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #imagination

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#certainly #earnings #equivalent #gap #great

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#action #gratitude #happiness #inspirational #life