#mate

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#conceals #democracy #desolation #destruction #eruption

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#attitude #cameras #dealing #depending #down

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be intimate with you. So you kind of feel your way through a show. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#because #certain #certain kinds #change #come

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man. ↗

— Frank Carson

#am #best #funny #him #i

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship. ↗

— Patricia Arquette

#each #enjoy #honest #humor #i

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place. ↗

— Owen Arthur

#occurring #only #place #prevent #them

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#called #earl #helena #her #herring

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#ideally #material #more #possibly #should

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#purpose #raw-materia #writing #art