#ripple

She danced so curving, lissom, like the laughter of the song. She sent resounding into spaace and down the ages long. ↗

— Tui Allen

#age

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty. ↗

— Holly Black

#crippled #flaws #beauty

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world. ↗

— Sharon Weil

#donny-and-ursula #donny-and-ursula-save-the-world #fecundity #orgasm #ripples

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#crippled #got #i #lumps #take

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence. ↗

— Alice Walker

#blog #crippled #generations #i #i do

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ↗

— Graham Greene

#coastline #dangerous #failure #more #over

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#ask #cripples #demand #else #everyone

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ↗

— Horace

#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly