#ld

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#could #ideal #people #pick #solitude

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#been #child #easily #forgets #go

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#having #i #i think #more #mysteriously

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#album #approach #chaotic #creating #i

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. ↗

— Fred Ward

#after #each #history #just #just one

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#attacks #back #community #force #gulf

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#between #empty #empty space #get #greatest

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#china #constructive #could #course #dialogue

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to editions that I've had and lost, with various illustrators' work in them. It brings back moments sitting reading it with my mother. It brings back my first contact with the Disney cartoon. It brings back standing in the play-yard when I was a kid, when the wind was really blowing, and closing my eyes, spreading my arms and pretending I could fly. It brings back childhood dreams of flying. It brings back the first encounter I ever had with an invented world... Never Never Land was really the first journey I took to an invented world which I believed in wholly and completely. I remember the immense solidarity that I felt with the Lost Boys, with Peter, with the Indians - how much I wanted to be a Red Indian - how much the saving of Tiger Lily meant to me as a kid, how much I wanted to one day wake up and save an Indian squaw from drowning. ↗

— Clive Barker

#childhood #inspiration #reading #dreams

So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#choice #economies #even #government #i