#things

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#better #certain #death #episode #every

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#between #breaking #characters #comedy #ever

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#dead #experience #ghosts #life #night

Time brings all things to pass. ↗

— Aeschylus

#all things #brings #pass #things

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. ↗

— Aeschylus

#man #many #profitable #things #wise

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#does #itself #man #reckon #self-will

Time as he grows old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#grows #old #teaches #things #time

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind. ↗

— Shaun Alexander

#could #i #if i could #matter #mind

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#begin #belief #conviction #deep #deep conviction