#si

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. ↗

— A. Alfred Taubman

#auction #awfully #boring #business #else

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#affected #digital #downloading #music #us

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#desires #equally #gifts #god #his

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#music #beauty

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#ever #reason #strong #tamed

You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a tale that brings beauty into the world. You are set free whenever you love—even those who believe you’re crazy. ↗

— Jef Murray

#escapism #expression #freedom #oloris #art

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#building #caliber #chefs #position #relationships

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#attention #concentration #detail #endeavor #requires

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life. ↗

— Mena Suvari

#ago #asked #does #genuinely #i

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#kill #killed #like #thing