#than

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #anything #artist #bit #challenge

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. ↗

— David Bowie

#become #camp #camper #departure #did

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#difficult #gradually #me #more #mother

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#along #am #being #best #communicate

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#compassion #discipline #example #father #honesty

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#childless #mother-in-law #persona #political #single

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#clerk #easier #holding #rob #setting

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ↗