#t

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#big #heroic #i #like #make

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#books #literature #experience

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#betray #i #intellectual #myself #power

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#comforting #illusion #live #world

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#character #him #man #manner #most

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up. ↗

— China Chow

#art world #bigger #growing #growing up #i

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#how #matters #more #much #office

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#bend #every #give #glory #god

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cunning #divorced #justice #knowledge #may

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#september #stands #terrible #terrible tragedy #tragedy