#ma

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#coffee #day #die #good #i

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#art #books #comic #comic books #five

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. ↗

— Elizabeth Vargas

#chairs #overdue #sitting #those #three

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#long #married #me #mother #roof

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#assume #because #been #context #easier

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#around #big #business #come #flames

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#around #could #falling #had #half

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#i #legal #married #more #now