#t

"that moment... that moment out there?" Blake pointed at the bed of army jacket, grass, and mint. "I've pictured it in my head for months. Months! I knew it would never really happen, but it kept me going. The beautiful, smiling girl would look at me like a man-a man worthy of her body, worthy of her kisses. Do you realize what a fool I am for hoping?" ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#beauty

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. ↗

— Man Ray

#existence #i #i do #paint #photograph

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ↗

— Monica Seles

#because #care #champions #cold #dark

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. ↗

— Alice Borchardt

#life #death

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#crew #film #films #fixed #four

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #before #enough #haul #i

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#been #blues #doing #done #full

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. ↗

— Man Ray

#least #me #member #most #our

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death. ↗

— Anthony Horowitz

#thoughts #death