#iona

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. ↗

— David Copperfield

#give #hook #i #magic #stage

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#divine #flight #flying #flying-spirit #inspirational

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#face #i #i believe #i believe that #interdependence

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#back #emotional #giving #like #listen

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#inspirational #symbolic #beauty

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about. ↗

— David Cross

#cnn #fox #fox news #get #got

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#character #emotional #find #i #involvement

The Man Who Is Not His Own Master Is A Slave" --Unknown ↗

— Unknown Author

#attitude