#ration

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. ↗

— Neil Young

#first #generation #music #power #them

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#afford #doctor #i #offered #operation

‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?" "It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #beauty

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it. ↗

— Picabo Street

#get #how #i #inspiration #need

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. ↗

— William Gibson

#anyone #come #dead #generation #generation x

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ↗

— Andre Gide

#artist #better #between #collaboration #does

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#afraid #anybody #been #comes #earth

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#best friend #friend #husband #inspiration #intellectual