#mit

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#admit #along #annoyed #being #elsewhere

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. ↗

— David Antin

#committed #composing #experimental #filmmaker #i

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#husband #i #involved #know #like

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#become #chief #error #infallibility #leader

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. ↗

— Dario Argento

#boring #else #everything #life #limit

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#close #close proximity #deal #definitely #everybody

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

I was born with lots of deformities. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#deformities #i #i was born #lots

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#cannot #change #come #committed #crimes