#los

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. ↗

— Dan Brown

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#close #family #friends #knew #me

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artsy #being-practical #cooking #creativity

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#current #deer #employees #graduates #history

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#always #another #attracted #because #close

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#burning #cookies #explosives #fills #hot

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die. ↗

— M. John Harrison

#memory #beauty

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#being #happened #hate #i #lose

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#every #fact #forced #general #his

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#basic #behind #curiosity #drive #interest