#ling

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#believed #calling #go #god #had

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#ball #bowling #building #device #lace

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way. ↗

— Steve Vai

#emotional #feeling #something #sound #way

They were willing to do anything to stop me. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#me #stop #were #willing

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#better #boomerang #dangerous #everyone #feel

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#continuity #emphasis #family #hence #individual

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. ↗

— Chanakya

#god #idols #present #soul #temple

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. ↗

— Chanakya

#cut #dealings #down #forest #going

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances