#joseph

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person. ↗

— Trey Parker

#i #i see #joseph #luke #person

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#being #campbell #faces #greatly #hero

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#truth #beauty

Hi I am Joseph Letzelter, “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword”; Laugh until your cheeks hurt; there is nothing worse than being ordinary; “A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to”. ↗

— Joseph Letzelter

#beauty

I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#josephine #run #think #business

I had this guy’s file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.” Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. “Did you say Desperado?” I couldn’t stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. “Yeah,” the Director confirmed. “He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin.” I was still laughing. “’Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #humor #joseph-carter #keepers

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#confidence #courage #dread #joseph-heller #positive

That was very good of him. Remarked Prince Kaunitz, chancellor of state and minister of foreign affairs of the Holy Roman Empire, on being told of the death of Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor. ↗

— Wenzel Anton Prince Fürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg

#holy-roman-empire #joseph #prince #death

The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine. ↗

— J.L. Mac

#faith

...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower ↗

— Josephine Baker

#freedom