#mina

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#educate #illuminate #inspire #motivate #power

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#critics #degree #determination #dullness #fascinating

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#beyond #culmination #divinity #future #gives

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.' ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #creating #criminals #deals #deserve

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alive #award #between #book #called

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#determination #hard #hard work #i #lie

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#casual #clothes #criminal #funeral #lawyer

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#ethnic #everywhere #hopelessness #racial

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly