#peri

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#authority #earth #free #his #law

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. ↗

— Steve Albini

#conventional wisdom #doubt #experiment #reason #unless

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#create #dream #experienced #future #gives

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #experience

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#human #see #experience

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can’t imagine what it’s like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #experience

Food first,” Kellen said firmly, “because I’m a really good cook, and I want you to experience the full awesomeness. And then bed, nice and slow, for pretty much the same reason. ↗

— Kaje Harper

#experience

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. ↗

— John Ashbery

#experiences #i #i write #mind #out

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#away #been #career #character #days

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#conclusion #discovers #does #draws #experience