#passes

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #devices #distortions #go #lifetime

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#encompasses #middle #middle class #population #white

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#i #i can #me #mom #out

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this. ↗

— Katy Perry

#back #be careful #careful #completely #context

Democracy passes into despotism. ↗

— Plato

#despotism #into #passes

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make. ↗

— Donny Robinson

#anything #being #bigger #body #cons

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#believe #earth #encompasses #god #i

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#bad idea #beauty #elegance #idea #nothing