#or

Short cuts make long delays. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#life-lesson #pippin #proverbs #shortcuts #life

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#artists #countless #i #i am #judgment

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#any #anything #find #given #into

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. ↗

— Al Purdy

#formal #god #i #religious #sense

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#acting #being #being honest #being real #better

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ↗

— Alan Paton

#done #forgive #injury #never #recover

Food simply isn't important to me. ↗

— Alice Paul

#important #me #simply

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No. ↗

— Kilari Anand Paul

#burn #legally #pastor #people #right