#mo

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#feel #full #full moon #happy #how

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#attached #before #go #got #just

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ↗

— Martin Amis

#gives #moral #neutral #style

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#admission #babysitter #dinner #film #good

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dirty #feet #first #girl #i

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

#amount #anything #because #change #complain

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#go #i #knew #me #mother