#she

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#achieve #certain #confidence #costs #decided

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#center #focused #her #instrument #instrumentalist

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#book #ceased #day #first #man

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#also #back #been #brought #businessman

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#conform #day #i #made #me

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#bedroom #erect #fashion #going #i

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#america #direct #give #obeyed #orders

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#city #does #existence #had #hiroshima

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion