#r

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#dissatisfied #haven #i #like #out

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#had #i #something #strong #strong desire

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#energies #honing #i #into #my time

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time. ↗

— Dan Deacon

#just #made #most #never #performer

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long

The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspiration-through-art #strength #art

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #between #block #building #building block

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#enigma #photography #art

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#music #prayer #art