#ria

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. ↗

— David Bowie

#colour #expression #i #i wish #like

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#fiction #highly #i #intellectual #material

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#biggest #city #created #dickens #expanded

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#great idea #i #i think #idea #institution

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#demoralizing #expensive #far #how #man

I shared what we were learning, so that others might grow in their faith through the testing of ours. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#hope #testing #trials-of-life #faith

We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#prayer #referee #trials #faith

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #trials #trust #faith

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly. ↗

— Jo Brand

#apparently #become #beginning #bit #cuddly