#l

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#men #rational #reap #sow #whirlwind

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slave

I spend a lot of time with my characters. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#i #lot #spend #time

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#family

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#floating #great #ocean #our #psyche

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #evidence #existed #front #imagine

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings. ↗

— Rita Dove

#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me! ↗

— Alan Vega

#believe #come #could #covers #does

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. ↗

— Rita Dove

#believe #creativity #going #i #i believe