#rve

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#church #compose #did #faith #felt

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know. ↗

— Rich Little

#bob #bob hope #burns #george #george burns

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#clear #communications #critical #distraction #exaggeration

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ↗

— Joe Louis

#i #like #money #nerves #quiets

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

#lord #love #my own #own #perceive

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#artificial #attached #banks #been #both

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#arab #arab world #believe #consider #deserve

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#equalizer #guns #hand #help #imagination