#ture

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#beat #drops #head #kiss #liquid

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. ↗

— Gretel Ehrlich

#nature #writing #art

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it. ↗

— Brit Hume

#destruction #disguise #down #feel #fun

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

#impossible #make #me #picture #tell

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. ↗

— Charles Ives

#consciousness #day #daybreak #experience #explained

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

#also #continuing #dangers #expose #failings

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. ↗

— Francois Jacob

#always #answer #chase #day #euphoric