#ra

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#horror movies #i #i think #movies #natural

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#contacts #happy #happy childhood #human #poor

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#creative #democratic #elements #i #i think

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later. ↗

— Doug Collins

#am #finals #four #going #heart

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#ago #character #fabulous #hilton #paris

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life. ↗

— James Collins

#balanced #call #ever #going #i