#ld

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#among #bastards #fall #liberals #out

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#art #deep #meanings #misery #one thing

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#away #because #before #days #did

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#the-art-of-fielding #art

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#emotion #expressing #finale #human #human being

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#abandonment #became #century #early #film

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#dissipation #old-age #age

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ↗

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#any #become #could #important #important thing

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#actual #always #function #him #killer

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. ↗

— Peter York

#hamburger #rock #rock and roll #roll #world