#verse

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#clear #egg #finishes #following #form

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#create #ends #get #happens #human

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#apple #apple pie #first #invent #make

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#disservice #does #long #our #reason

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#about #am #concerned #corporate #elite

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. ↗

— John Sununu

#background #benefit #budget #calculating #challenges

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#always #between #i #i always #life

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#consciousness #endowed #everything #i #kind

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#earth #exalted #holy #immutable #impressive