#ran

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general. ↗

— Jung Chang

#became #fifteen #general #grandmother

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#bounty #canadian #child #distress #girl

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. ↗

— William Lilly

#houses #hundred #i #pounds #purchased

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#better #first #founded #generation #good

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#give #human #human experience #i #i think

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#arrange #being #club #fairly #good

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#posthumanism #sifi #transhumanism #intelligence

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. ↗

— John Corry

#conventional #delicate #flying #glass #gothic

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#art forms #because #books #different #exactly

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. ↗

— Cleopatra

#despise #events #strange #terrible #welcome