#si

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. ↗

— James Houston

#tools #words #writer #you

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ↗

— Jean Houston

#height #into #kaleidoscope #laughter #new

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#basically #comes #decided #i #life

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#century #hard #i #me #music

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#been #day #down #eat #frame

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#church #constantly #contact #first #had

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man. ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #pride #death

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#dad #disappointed #even #more #people

I got sick of the dough, and thought I'd go on the loaf. ↗

— Curly Howard

#go #got #i #loaf #sick