#ties

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs. ↗

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

#back #binds #church #city #contradictions

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#blunder #correct #democracy #mistakes #new

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#find #make #men #more #opportunities

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#obliged #possibilities #stick #truth

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#in-depth #into #misfortune #only #overview

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#change the world #entertain #entertainer #girl #i

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it? ↗