#pear

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#begin #i #mine #never #poem

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#appears #bad #bad stuff #contained #environment

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#begins #believe #decay #disappear #eroding

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#falsehood #law #ornament #pretense #religion

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. ↗

— Pam Grier

#allowed #any #appearance #beauty #emphasis

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#appear #atoms #beings #biological #cells

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#fact #had #i #important #important fact

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. ↗

— Homer

#counterfeit #friends #less #moved #than

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#because #could #hostess #hump #say

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conclude #could #creation #creator #fondness