#ow

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#finished #future #i #ideas #maybe

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#payoffs #random #seemed #showbiz #slot

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#going #i #know #mouth #never

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#down #i #never #out #turned

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. ↗

— Cass Gilbert

#before #ignorant #know #only #rashness

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#afraid #anybody #been #comes #earth

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#ancient rome #attendant #back #beings #believe

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#driving #i #if i could #read #showering

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#always #enough #every #few #finally

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#better #better chance #born #both #chance