#les

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. ↗

— John Grisham

#bashed #critics #fiction #get #going

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. ↗

— George Grosz

#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#israel #miracles #must #order #realist

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#anything #behind #hollywood #huge #knives

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#glass #good-will #heart #here #hopeless

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David Hackworth

#corrupt #feckless #fixed #i #moral

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

His mind remained freakishly pin-point sharp until his last days, but his body had shut-down a good six months before. He surprised his hospice doctor and nurses by clinging to life long after he should have expired. It was a fear of dying, driven by guilt over something he did early on. He was afraid of judgment day. His strict Catholic upbringing wreaked havoc in his brain and kept his will from preventing his body to die. ↗

— Stephen Joseph Mitskavich

#life

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#back #beatles #david #get #halen

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#classical #guitar #guitar lessons #holland #i