#la

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#define #easy #enough #indeed #pastime

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#because #colonies #impossible #keep #know

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless. ↗

— Cass Elliot

#doing #lay #nobody #out #relentless

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#east #founded #greece #group #i

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#condemn #condemns #forgives #god #law

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#wordsmithing #writing #beauty

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel. ↗

— Don Ellis

#feel #others #play #should #think

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#beer #buy #everyone #frustrating #frustrating thing

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#act #because #clay #could #crime

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. ↗

— Don Ellis

#assumed #audience #come #compromising #expect