#lent

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ↗

— Robert Burns

#armour #defensive #existence #favourite #i

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#happen #love #name #opera #other

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#deal #frail #get #horror #likely

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ↗

— George Carlin

#nights #only #silent #wolves

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. ↗

— Julian Castro

#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#contrast #does #genius #mozart #must

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ↗

— Bob Barker

#depend #experience #how #i #i do

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#i #obligation #talent #use #you