#lace

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#always #anger #been #bit #chill

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. ↗

— James Dickey

#being #caused #destruction #human #human being

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. ↗

— Natalie Lloyd

#eiffel-tower #lace #observation #paris #steel

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#anything #dance #i #knee #replacements

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. ↗

— David Dinkins

#children #columbia #course #fun #go

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ↗

— Walt Disney

#build #create #dream #make #most

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#books #deliberately #emotionally #i #i think

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ↗

— John Donne

#jail #own #palace #thine #thy