#ring

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#cruel #hearts #order #other #our

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much. ↗

— Paula Cole

#audiences #every #every time #family #give

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#call #honorable #i #i believe #incomparable

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#calling #came #derogatory #during #i

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#daily #fringes #i #journalism #mail

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service. ↗

— John Galliano

#concentrate #day #going #good #i

Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life #suffering #life

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#blind #braille #brings #code #created

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#convent #entering #great #great thing #simply