#mage

Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there'd be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town, and digging holes to serve as traps, and training with the few weapons they had. There'd be a wiping of perspiration and drinks raised to one another and the exchange of friendly smiles between comrades, and perhaps deeper, more meaningful glances between him and MaryAnn. But by midmorning of the first day, Cole had come to the unavoidable conclusion that the remainder of the experience would in fact drag on in exceedingly real time, with lots of heaving and hoing and digging and hauling under the hot sun, full of the kind of intense straining that raised the danger of a really spectacular hernia. And, judging from the few tense conversations he'd had so far, he foresaw a series of increasingly strident arguments with Nora regarding matters strategic. Plus, of course, at the end of all this effort they'd all probably be dead. ↗

— Michael Rubens

#defensive-fortifications #montage #real-time #seven-samurai-homage #strategy

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols. ↗

— John Hench

#because #communicate #course #enormous #even

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. ↗

— Georg Hermes

#her #manifold #mansions #pilgrimage #soul

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#change #creative #hypnotized #images #improved

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#changes #our #relentless #repetitive #self

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#became #father #girl #i #image

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#because #bible #every #god #hotel

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#embodies #father #find #good #hard

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean? ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#beach boys #day #doris #group #i