#lit

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#animal #around #bear #bit #close

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them. ↗

— Aaron Yoo

#could #just #literally #new #new york

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #carried #content #country #express

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #disseminate #ideology #political #political ideology

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#could #day #draw #drawn #every

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assisted #endure #form #friendship #little

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #christian #christianity #cross #died

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#conscience #credibility #evidence #good #only

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #possess #quality #striving #strong

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical