#iona

I started off wanting to change the world, now I'm just hoping the world doesn't change me. ↗

— Ray Mileur

#ray-mileur #change

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that. ↗

— Edward Burns

#business #doing #eye #film #film business

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#any #horror #national #other #our

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. ↗

— John Howard

#disposable #life #national #never #political

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#availability #collective #essential #exceeded #expectations

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#charms #i #ignorant #into #introducing

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#beliefs #only #revolutionary #share #those

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#am #better #hope #i #i am