#line

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#act #am #because #bristles #ceases

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#basically #comes #decided #i #life

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#agreement #beneath #differences #discipline #doctrine

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#ancient #civilizations #decline #died #find

The straight line is ungodly. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#straight #straight line #ungodly

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. ↗

— H. L. Hunt

#loveliness #man

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#everything #get #guy #him #his

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#down #first #first step #happen #making

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#absolutely not #jigsaw #jigsaw puzzle #like #linear