#liz

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#export #forth #freedom #greatest #ideals

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#equalize #law #mankind #nature #spite

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ↗

— John Cage

#nothing #possess #realize #soon

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant. ↗

— John Cameron

#had #i #image #many #negative

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with. ↗

— James Cameron

#bit #give #long #long time #me

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience. ↗

— Isabella I

#concrete #distance #experience #firm #great

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#civilization #engineering #forces #good #long

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#appreciate #been #beginning #blessing #disguise