#som

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. ↗

— John Ciardi

#every #father #his #hope #house

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#life #lose #risking #said #save

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#because #english #feel #i #i feel

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#control #despotic #does #elite #form

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#else #good #good idea #had #his

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#amazes #certain #chapters #characters #conscious thought

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#anyone #bad #does #else #matter

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#earth #how #i #more #something

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even