#though

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ↗

— Robert Collier

#bring #center #clear #into #mass

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process. ↗

— James Collins

#began #fact #first #in fact #instead

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

#contradict #may #must #never #speak

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ↗

— Eliza Cook

#good #good works #language #make #man

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ↗

— David Kay

#best #excel #i #iraqis #knew

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#centuries #continuity #future #greatest #greatest strength

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#around #composing #hadn #i #loved

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #any #become #dignified #form

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#even #far #hasn #life #logical

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#film #fountain #petrified #thought