#hr

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases. ↗

— John Otto

#bit #completing #drum #had #i

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#did #future #promise #switch #threat

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#becoming #big #father #felt #giving

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#anyone #god #me #through #work

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#career #could #had #i #i do

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#saint #sanctification #sin #attitude

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#christian #i #jewish

it was unmatched life experience that bestowed in her eyes the sultry gleam that separates women from girls. although she viewed her “life experience” like bruises on a peach, men of all ages still found ways to see past the indications of damaged goods long enough to offer her a drink. hell, it was less than an hour ago that one such man called her “gothic perfection” and cried on her shoulder. her boyfriend agreed that a crazy life can “grow a girl up quick”; it was only last november that she turned seventeen. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#gothic #suicide #thriller #age

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#before #finally #girl #go #how