#sages

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. ↗

— Russell Baker

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#always #claim #commits #credit #deed

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#body #body image #brain #clothes #comfortable

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#film #i #messages #office #post

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do? ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#me #messages #move #other #phone

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#being #better #laws #like #made

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#making #must #respect #retain #sausages

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. ↗

— Otto Dix

#after #afterwards #along #badly #could

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. ↗

— John Edward

#conscious #i #i think #majority #many

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#i #long #narrative #passages #readers