#thin

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#burn #business #clearly #himself #humor

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#between #difference #great #know #knowing

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#asking #because #course #determines #doctor

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. ↗

— John M. Ford

#book #certainly #completely #disposable #giving

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#become #colorful #feel #film #get

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#built #burnt #create #egypt #felt

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things. ↗

— Lita Ford

#hands #i #like #microphone #stuck

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it. ↗

— George Thorogood

#best #could #entertainment #everything #feed

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#artist #butterflies #friend #had #head

I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go? ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#echo #pure #thin #food