#lows

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#alone #amazing #comfort #cure #else

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#allows #evil #god #i #life

You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?" "That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant. I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#humor #humour #beauty

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#business #cause #crazy #else #greater

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#coasts #deal #follows #great #great deal

I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#centered #come #day #feel #flows

Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship. ↗

— Paula Deen

#almost #audience #electrical #energy #feed

It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun. ↗

— James Denton

#because #down #end #every #every time

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#cold #days #hot #light #march