#ss

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#friendship #rehab #self-awareness #friendship

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#art #being #being done #done #i

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses? ↗

— William Faulkner

#best-friends #friendship #friendship

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#empathy #friendship #knowing #knowledge #meeting

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#frank-delaney #friend #friendliness #friendship #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.' ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #being #bit #box #deficits

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. ↗

— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#friendship #loss #sadness #friendship

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an inscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives. ↗

— Joe Hill

#creative-process #creative-thinking #friendship #scrabble #wordplay

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#beauty #bow #composer #creation #lie