#ran

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

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry. ↗

— Patsy Cline

#carnegie #carnegie hall #fabulous #grand #hall

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place. ↗

— Chuck Close

#controlled #disabilities #drove #faces #fact

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#american #american dream #anything #because #dream