#lock

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#bigger #block #dream #faith #fear

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#block #find #go #inspiration #never

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop. ↗

— Nicholas Negroponte

#certainly #education #includes #issue #laptop

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#door #equals #figure #films #fire

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#darkness

Warlock,” he said. “I know who you are.” Magnus raised his eyebrows. “You do?” “Magnus Bane. Destroyer of the demon Marabas. Son of—” “Now,” said Magnus, quickly. “There’s no need to go into all of that.” “But there is.” The demon sounded reasonable, even amused. “If it is infernal assistance you require, why not summon your father?” Alec looked at Magnus with his mouth open. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#demon #magnus-bane #warlock #father

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #sherlock-holmes