#quarters

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! ↗

— Anne Seward

#criticism #derision #entering #exposed #female

My father,' I replied, 'I am fond of action. I like to succour the afflicted, and make people happy. Command that there be built for me a tower, from whose top I can see the whole earth, and thus discover the places where my help would be of most avai1.' 'To do good, without ceasing, to mankind, a race at once flighty and ungrateful, is a more painful task than you imagine,' said Asfendarmod. ------ After saying these words, my father motioned to us to retire; and immediately I found myself in a tower, built on the summit of Mount Caf - a tower whose outer walls were lined with numberless mirrors that reflected, though hazily and as in a kind of dream, a thousand varied scenes then being enacted on the earth. Asfendarmod's power had indeed annihilated space, and brought me not only within sight of all the beings thus reflected in the mirrors, but also within sound of their voices and of the very words they uttered. (“The Story of The Peri Homaiouna”) ↗

— William Beckford

#hero #jinn #peri #spirit #super-hero

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#clothes #dress #go #i #mask

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful. ↗

— David Zucker

#any #attract #audience #aware #been

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#going #great #great pride #halfway #i

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#am #assigns #certain #doors #gentleman

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#i #instrument #probably #songs #three-quarters

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. ↗

— Black Elk

#again #back #came #changed #dancing