#low

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out. ↗

— Joe Cronin

#i #out #pull #rank #until

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bad #bad time #crawling #dwell #gone

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#far #follow #how #image #matter

I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#artist #ashamed #because #different #feel

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#fear #means #new #slowness #usually

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#childhood #daddy #dishes #earned #garden

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#eternal #example #flower #life #poetry

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#below #built #card #cards #deck

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could