#yin

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#concerto #like #majority #me #nice

In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#humor #just-listen #owen #role-playing #sarah-dessen

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America. ↗

— Van Jones

#al #america #believe #bin #conspiracy

I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back. ↗

— Jason Segel

#back #bring #concept #disappointed #early

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#ask #butter #daddy #daughter #face

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #cat #elephant #giraffe #god

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#feeling #give #gratifying #me #mechanics

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#been #do you know #hearing #imagining #know

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool. ↗

— William Kempe

#i #kid #me #now #paying