#hea

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bang #because #down #feel #get

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#centuries #die #god #healthier #help

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#best #doing #going #human #human nature

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#about #believe #big #blessed #clear

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#days #fall #few #i #lost

Theater has always been most important to my psyche. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#been #important #most #psyche #theater

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#brains #heart #passing #regret #restored

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution