#wed

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#asked #entitlement #me #owed

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#around #back #children #feel #gay

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#bend #calmness #catholic #catholic church #church

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #bounty #manner #part #receives

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#allowed #beautiful #first #me #total

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#chance #children #film #great #only

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #asking #autographs #faces #familiar