#kin

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asking #better #daily #heart #longing

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. ↗

— John Cale

#future #holds #i #like #past

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time. ↗

— John Cale

#doing #i #making #records #same

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. ↗

— John Cale

#grabs #into #kind #locked #movement

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. ↗

— James Callaghan

#command #course #economy #every #goes

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#because #difference #doing #else #everybody

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#been #blame #company #course #difficult

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#doing #i #just #love #me

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#be prepared #congress #justify #members #office