#ible

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#eat #food #good #incomprehensible #kind

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#canned #like #music #wallpaper

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#challenge #challenges #come #excellence #go

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#american #ashes #awakening #cycle #death

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#deals #done #movie #nuts #subject

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#chances #course #forlorn #hand #i

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#hardest #i #overcame #possible #route