#ra

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated

You become what you think about all day long. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#obsession #inspirational

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#any #army #back #been #before

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#choose #contradictions #corner #i #i think

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#been #could #counter #ever #farmers

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. ↗

— Martin Short

#actor #being #character #character actor #eyebrows

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#educational #exciting #just #purpose #rather

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. ↗

— Bobby Short

#example #for example #music #only #people

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. ↗

— Clare Short

#go #going #guantanamo #i #i think

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. ↗

— Clare Short

#civilians #descending #gaza #into #iraq