#om

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#attempt #doomed #last #once #possibly

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#labyrinths #possibilities #beauty

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#beautiful #butterfly #five #floating #four

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? ↗

— Henry Flynt

#about #anyway #artists #became #began

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#anything #because #being #bullet #did

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#case #communities #community #court #individual

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#homes #interested #others #own #people

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#change #large #large sums #moral #nothing

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#i #may #music #music business #never