#it

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true. ↗

— Kaira Rouda

#attitude

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#break #considered #contract #especially #major

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past. ↗

— Eric Lindros

#bang #crash #done #i #in the past

Write visually or die! ↗

— Jim Steranko

#art

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#creativity #photography #art

What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know. ↗

— Sara Quin

#i-don-t-know #if-it-was-you #make-me-stay #not-tonight #sara-quin

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances. ↗

— Bai Ling

#chances #depp #favorite #johnny #johnny depp

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#friendship #pessimistic #reality #wise #friendship

Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you’re at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were — mostly — if you did all that, you’d never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#conversion #age